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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Listening to the Girls: Participant Perceptions of the Confidence-Boosting Aspects of a Girls' Summer Mathematics and Technology Camp
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Frost, Janet Hart; Wiest, Lynda R. – Mathematics Educator, 2007
Females, students of color, and students of low socioeconomic status (SES) are often underserved or marginalized in mathematics education. However, some instructional approaches and intervention programs have been shown to educate these students more equitably. This study examines how girls of diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Intervention, Student Attitudes, Females
Impact of Personalization of Mathematical Word Problems on Student Performance
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Bates, Eric T.; Wiest, Lynda R. – Mathematics Educator, 2004
This research investigated the impact of personalizing mathematical word problems using individual student interests on student problem-solving performance. Ten word problems were selected randomly from a mathematics textbook to create a series of two assessments. Both assessments contained problems exactly as they appeared in the textbook and…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Textbooks, Student Interests, Interest Inventories