Going to school means learning new skills and facts in different subjects. Teachers teach

Going to school means learning new skills and facts in different subjects. Teachers teach and students learn, and many scientists are interested in finding ways to improve both teaching and learning processes.
Sian Beilock and Susan Leving, two psychologists at the University of Chicago, are trying to learn about learning. In a new study about the way kids learn math in elementary school, Beilock and Levine found a surprising relationship between what female teachers think and what female students learn: If a female teacher is uncomfortable with her own math skills, then her female students are more likely to believe that boys are better than girls at math. “If these girls keep getting math-anxious female teachers in later grades, it may create a snowball effect on their math achievement,” Levine told Science News. The study suggests that if these girls grow up believing that boys are better at math than girls are, then these girls may not do as well as they would have if they were more confident.
Just as students find certain subjects to be difficult, teachers can find certain subjects to be difficult to learn—and teach. The subject of math can be particularly difficult for everyone.
The new study involved 65 girls, 52 boys and 17 first-and second-grade teachers in elementary schools in the Midwest. The students took math achievement tests at the beginning and end of the school year, and the researchers compared the scores.
The researchers also gave the students tests to tell whether the students believed a math superstar had to be a boy. Then the researchers turned to the teachers: To find out which teachers were anxious about math, the researchers asked the teachers how they felt at times when they came across math, such as when reading a sales receipt. A teacher who got nervous looking at the numbers on a sales receipt, for example, was probably anxious about math.
Boys, on average, were unaffected by a teacher’s anxiety. On average, girls with math-anxious teachers scored lower on the end-of-the-year math tests than other girls in the study did. Plus, on the test showing whether someone thought a math superstar had to be a boy, 20 girls showed feeling that boys would be better at math—and all of these girls had been taught by female teachers with math anxiety.
According to surveys done before this one, college students who want to become elementary school teachers have the highest levels of anxiety about math. Plus, nine of every 10 elementary teachers are women, Levine said.
【小题1】Sian Beilock and Susan Levine carried out the new research in order to .A．know the effects of teaching on learning B．study students’ ways of learning mathC．prove women teachers are unfit to teach mathD．find better teaching methods for teachers【小题2】The underlined part in paragraph 2 most probably means that girls may .A．end up learning math anxiety from their teachersB．study the ways their female teachers behaveC．have an influence on their math-anxious female teachersD．gain unexpected achievement in such subjects as math【小题3】In the study, what were the teachers required to do?A．Prepare two math achievement tests for the studentsB．Tell their feelings about math problemsC．Answer whether a math superstar had to be a boyD．Compare the students’ scores after the math tests【小题4】What is the finding of the new study?A．No male students were affected by their teachers’ anxietyB．Almost all the girls got lower scores in the tests than the boysC．About 30% of the girls thought boys are better at math than girlsD．Girls with math-anxious teachers all failed in the math tests【小题5】 Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?A．117 students and teachers took part in the new studyB．The researchers felt surprised at the findings of their studyC．Beilock and Levine are interested in teaching mathD．Men teachers are better at teaching math than women teachersB

(答案→)B 解析：【小题1】B 细节题：从文章第二段的句子：In a new study about the way kids learn math in elementary school,看出这个研究是关于孩子的数学学习的。【小题1】A 句意推测题：从第二段的句子：If these girls keep getting math-anxious female teachers in later grades,说明这些女孩如果一直有数学焦虑的女老师，她们以后也会有这种症状的。【小题1】B细节题：从文章第四段的句子：the researchers asked the teachers how they felt at times when they came across math,看出是问老师对数学的感觉。【小题1】C 推理题：从第五段的句子：20 girls showed feeling that boys would be better at math得出答案是：30%的女孩认为男孩数学更好。【小题1】B从文章最后一段可看出，虽然情况是这样，还是有很多小学女老师，所以研究人员很惊讶。

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