ABSTRACT
This chapter is mainly concerned with two items relating to interest in arithmetic and mathematics, which were included in the Schools project questionnaire. Present pupils in some schools were asked to underline the answer which was true for them in the item: Mathematics—Like much/Like a little/Neither like nor dislike/Dislike a little/Dislike much. Because of the trend of the results in arithmetical and mathematical attainment the co-educated girls had been expected to express a greater liking for the two subjects than that expressed by the girls from girls' schools. In a longitudinal analysis examining the change in the liking for arithmetic between the ages 11 and 13 the co-educated boys started off with slightly more liking and the difference became considerable by the age of 13. The free responses of the boys and girls, though valuable in other respects, differentiate little between co-educational and single-sex schooling in the salient points made.
