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2013 Conference Proceedings - University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Number <strong>of</strong> journals containingEmotion word or phraseword/phrase (N = 275)Difficult 118Easy 112frustrate; frustrated; frustrating 99Hard 96challenge; challenging 87Simple 78Fun 74Interesting 66confused; confusing; confusion 59succeed; succeeded; success 54excited; exciting 50Enjoy 47got stuck 38accomplish; accomplished; accomplishment 37Figure 2. Emotion words/phrases mentioned in more than 35 journals.There were indications <strong>of</strong> the pairing <strong>of</strong> positive and negative emotions in student journals. Astudent wrote, “It’s interesting to me because no one can really understand the wonderful feeling<strong>of</strong> figuring something out until they have really been frustrated with the problem.” Somestudents commented on the questionnaire in their reflective journals. A student wrote, “I alsoliked the paper we filled out asking us about how we felt and stuff because it showed me how mymood had changed throughout the activity from the beginning, in the middle, and at the end. Inoticed a big difference from my middle mood to the beginning and end mood.”Quantitative DataA general linear model was set up with the three repeated emotion measures as the dependentvariable. Individuals were considered as blocks; the variables gender, class grade, GPA anddegree program were independent variables, none <strong>of</strong> which were found statistically significantand were dropped from the model. The analysis continued using a repeated measures procedure,<strong>Proceedings</strong> <strong>of</strong> the 40 th Annual Meeting <strong>of</strong> the Research Council on Mathematics Learning <strong>2013</strong> 20

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