Perhaps the Decision of Some Students not to Engage in Learning Mathematics in School is Deliberate

By P. Sullivan, Steve Tobias, Andrea McDonough. 2006

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“My favourite subject is maths. For some reason no-one really agrees with me”: student perspectives of mathematics teaching and learning in the upper primary classroom (2011, background): “In an Australian study of students’ perceptions of how their own efforts influence achievement at mathematics, Sullivan et al. (2006) found positive responses to school mathematics learning opportunities were inhibited by a combination of direct and indirect pressure from peers not to try hard in ”
PUTTING CONTEXT IN CONTEXT: AN EXAMINATION OF THE EVIDENCE FOR THE BENEFITS OF ‘CONTEXTUALISED’ TASKS (2011, background): “For example, the United States Department of Education (2008) cited a decline in the percentage of US students studying for degrees in the science, mathematics, engineering and ICT from 32% to 27% in the decade from 1994 and warned that failure to address the problem of undersupply of people qualifi”
Authentic Problem Solving and Learning in the 21st Century (2015, background): “Mathematics researchers have found that many students disengage with mathematics learning as early as in middle school (Sullivan et al. 2006).”