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What does it do?
This site will give you more information on individual students and their attitudes towards mathematics, complementing teaching areas of mathematics such as Number, Data, Shape and Algebra.
From your students' results, you can gain insights and help develop resilience in mathematics that will help your students in the long term.
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This site will give you the scores from your students in each area of mathematical resilience along with advice on what techniques may assist in developing and improving mathematical resilience in that individual. It also provides students with advice and guidance on what they can do to improve their resilience in mathematics once they have completed the questionnaire.
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If registered, students can track their results if they complete the questionnaire multiple times throughout their school life.
Examples
Use the dropdown box below to look at examples of student results from this tool, as well as advice as to how to help the individual.
This individual does not have the belief that they are good at mathematics. The low score in Maths Anxiety is also a concern, showing they are affected mentally when faced with maths problems. Other scores show that the individual cares about their learning, and has a willingness to improve their mathematical abilities and confidence.
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To help an individual such as this, ensuring that they feel successful at mathematical problems will help them to improve their self-concept and also improve their anxiety score, whilst also further establishing the other areas of resilience.
This student has high scores in Conscientiousness, Motivation and Self-Concept, showing they care about their learning and have belief in their ability. However, low scores in Maths Anxiety, Locus of Control and Mathematical Dispositions gives the impression that this student feels that mathematics is beyond their own control, and is not given much motivation to do well in the subject from others around them - they believe that mathematics is to be worked on individually, instead of with others.
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To help a student such as this, identify peers or friends that can help nurture a supportive environment around the student. This will improve their score in Mathematical Dispositions, whilst providing support in the other low scoring areas.
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This student is someone who is confident in their own abilities in mathematics, but may lack some of the care and responsibility in that, perhaps due to this confidence. The low score in Problem Solving & Perseverance also shows that this confidence in their knowledge may not always be applied to longer situations.
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To help an individual such as this, ensuring that they are challenged with longer style questions and puzzles (for example, the UKMT maths challenge questions) will allow the individual to improve their problem-solving skills as well as ensuring their understanding of the topics they have been studying.
This individual has scored low in most areas of mathematical resilience. The scores from Motivation, Conscientiousness and Mathematical Dispositions show that this individual recognises the importance of mathematics either to their future goals, and has a generally supportive atmosphere around them. It is likely that this individual has low confidence in their ability in mathematics, and this is what needs to be worked on to improve the scores in other aspects of resilience.
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To help an individual such as this, building up their ability to approach unknown problems and solve them successfully will reduce their anxiety and improve their perseverance in approaching mathematical problems.