Learning mathematics in the Israeli junior high
school has become a serious problem in the education
system in the last 20 years. In Israel the learning
of high level mathematics is a condition for being
accepted to any high prestige university department.
Thus it is crucial to learn what are the educational,
psychological and motivational components involved in
the learning of mathematics. I have examined these
components in grades 7, 8, 9, and 10 of a secular,
mixed Jewish school; religious school with single-sex
classes; secular mixed Arab school, and Arab girls
school, among 800+...

This book addresses a wide range of issues situated in the core of theoreticians’ and clinicians’ work in the field of giftedness. It gathers practical issues, relevant for the lives of many gifted children, adolescents and adults, from a neuropsychological point of view. By studying the basic questions in gifted education through a neuropsychological lens, this book aims to establish a uniform new way for the treatment of gifted children with social or emotional difficulties, learning disabilities, physical limitations, or psychological and psychiatric disorders.This book helps educators...