The phrase "mathematical task" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a specific type of work or assignment given to students or those in the workplace. For example, "The students were given a difficult mathematical task to complete for their assignment."
Williams (2007) noted that contextual teaching can give meaning to mathematics because "students want to know not only how to complete a mathematical task but also why they need to learn the mathematics in the first place.
Furthermore, students ought to become autonomous and self-motivated in their mathematical activities such as acquiring mathematical concepts, skills and problem solving; meta-cognitively aware of their mathematical thinking; highly motivated in mathematics learning and develop positive attitudes towards mathematical task.
In an experiment involving a simulated job-market, applicants were to be hired for a mathematical task in which men and women evidentially showed the same performance.
When applicants were asked to predict their own performance in the mathematical task, men overestimated their abilities and hence got employed more often.
A semantic short-term memory task (i.e. word memory) was more sensitive to disruption by speech than a mathematical task.
In Experiment 1, older and younger participants performed a simple mathematical task concurrent with a simulated medication management task.
(1) Habituation to task and repetition of task, as shown in an oddball task that led to decrements in P300 amplitude sequentially for each of the ten times the task was repeated [ 50]. (2) Task difficulty as shown in a series of mathematical tasks that gradually increased their level of difficultly, the P300 amplitudes formed a U-shaped trend from 'extremely easy' to 'extremely difficult' [ 51].
Mathematics anxiety (MA), a state of discomfort associated with performing mathematical tasks, is thought to affect a notable proportion of the school age population.
In those early waking minutes, our memory, reaction time, ability to perform basic mathematical tasks, and alertness and attention all suffer.
When volunteers are asked to perform easy mathematical tasks many times over in return for modest per-task payment, they do about 10% more work if they have just watched a few minutes of a comedy show.
Recent research by the OECD found that a quarter of adults in England have the maths skills of a 10-year-old, meaning they are only able to manage one-step mathematical tasks such as sorting numbers or reading graphs.
