英语翻译Teaching Math,Teaching AnxietyIn a new study about the w

英语翻译
Teaching Math,Teaching Anxiety
In a new study about the way kids learn math in elementary school,the psychologists at the
University of Chicagol1 Sian Beilock and Susan 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 teachers2 in later grades,it may create a snowball effect on their math achievement3 said Levine.In other words,girls may end up learning math anxiety from their teachers4.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.
Researchers use the word "anxiety" to describe such feelings:anxiety is uneasiness or worry.
The new study found that when a teacher has anxiety about math,that feeling can influence
how her female students feel about math.The 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 that 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 receipt5.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 who had math anxiety.
"This is an interesting study,but the results need to be interpreted as preliminary and in need
of replication with a larger sample6," said David Geary,a psychologist at the University of Missouri7 in Columbia.

教数学,教焦虑
在一项新的研究关于在小学里学生们学习数学的方法,芝加哥大学的心理学家Sian Beilock 和Susan Levine 在女老师所想的和女学生所学的之间发现了一个令人惊讶的关系：如果一个女老师对自己的数学方法不满意,那么女学生就更可能会觉得男生比她们擅长数学.
“如果这些女生持续得数学焦虑症,那么到更高的年级,女老师会更怀疑自己的能力.这样就会在她们的数学成绩上产生雪球效应.”Levine说道.换句话说,女生们因为她们的老师的想法而结束自己的数学焦虑症.这个研究显示如果女孩伴着认为男孩比她们更擅长数学的想法长大,那么这些女孩即使在更加自信的情况下也可能不会做得比她们本来可以做得更好.
正如学生觉得某一门课很难,老师会觉得这门课难学并且难教.数学这门课会对每一个人来说都特别地难.研究人员用“焦虑”这个词来描述这种感觉：焦虑就是不安和担心.这个新研究发现当老师对数学有焦虑感,这种感觉会影响她的的女学生对数学的感觉.这个研究包括了在美国中西部小学里的65个女孩,52个男孩,和17个一二年级的老师.学生们在学年伊始和学年末了进行了数学测验并且研究人员将分数进行了比较.研究人员还给学生测验,说学生们是否相信一个数学天才应该是个男孩.接下来研究人员又转向了老师：找到哪个老师对数学感到焦虑,例如当独到一个销售收据时老师的反映.例如,一个看到销售收据单上的数据会感到紧张的老师很可能对数学感到焦虑.
通常,男孩们并没有被老师的焦虑所影响.而平均看来,那些有患数学焦虑症的老师来教的女生在期末数学考试里比其他女生得的分数要低.而且,关于那个是否有人认为男生才会是数学天才的测验,20个女生感到男生会更擅长数学——而且所有的这些女生都是被患数学忧虑症的女老师所教的.
“这是个有趣的研究,但是结果需要被看作是初步的,并且需要更大的实验群体来得到答案.”David Geary——哥伦比亚的密苏里大学里的一个心理学家,说道.
这个原文里有1-7个空吧,我按照意思补全了,应该没多大问题,