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A quantitative research approach was used to find out participants’ WMC and to discover its relationship with their MP. A sample of 1186 participants’ from fifty seven public sector secondary schools in Lahore, through multistage random sampling was selected for this research. Figure Intersection Test was used to measure WMC where as Mathematics Performance Test was used to measure MP. Data were analyzed by using computer software SPSS version 15. The results showed a notable difference in WMC and MP due to gender. Performance of male students on Mathematics Performance Test was better than the performance of female students in the same test. In addition, WMC and MP of English medium students was better than Urdu medium students. Overall, WMC was highly connected with MP. Three groups of WMC (low, medium and high) were significantly different from each other in scores of both Figure Intersection Test and Mathematics Performance Test. Low performance in mathematics is may be due to overloaded working memory; therefore, this study has recommended that curriculum designers may take advantage of this research while selecting mathematical topics for nine graders.  \nKeywords: Working memory capacity, mathematical performance, gender, English medium students, Urdu medium students  \n* Ph.D Scholar, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore  \nEmail: [tahirashehbaz@yahoo.com](tahirashehbaz@yahoo.com)  \n**Ph.D Scholar, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore ***, Lecturer, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore  \nIntroduction  \nMathematics is an important subject in school education. Therefore, it is needed to explore factors affecting students’ performance in this subject. The working memory capacity is viewed as a foundation for all cognitive processes that depend on temporary storage and it has a central role in gaining basic educational skills (Alloway & Alloway, 2010), therefore, it has an important role in mathematical performance in school level education (Alloway, 2006; Panaoura, 2007) . The previous studies have argued close links between working memory capacity and mathematical performance (Alenezi, 2004; Holems & Adams, 2006) . Working memory capacity is playing a vital role in the development of mathematical abilities.(Passolunghi & Siegel, 2004; Swanson & Beebe-Frankenberger, 2004) . Working memory is responsible to preserve information active and available, so that, we can use it for different cognitive responsibilities (Crown, 2005; Hassin, 2005; Pickering, 2006 cited in Matlin 2009) including mathematical problem solving (Pezeshki, Alamolhodaei & Radmehr, 2011) . In addition, Wilson and Swanson (2001) has explained that low working memory capacity has been found to be directly related to low computational abilities in arithmetic and low performance on mathematical problem solving in classroom (Alloway & Alloway, 2010) . Researches have shown that students with extraordinary working memory capacity achieved significant higher results in mathematics test than that of low working memory capacity ones (Alamolhodaei, 2009; Pezeshki, Alamolhodaei & Radmehr,2011) . Therefore, understanding students’ low, medium and high working memory capacity in terms of assessment may help researchers to develop questions that don’t place unnecessary stress on the students’ working memory capacity (Alamolhodaei, 2009; Reid, 2002) which might be helpful for teachers and parents to encourage students to explain their own reasoning in front of their peers during class discussions in the subjects involving mathematical think","cbCaistZkMo7fyjx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaistZkMo7fyjx","pdf",177432,16,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Literature Review","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of the study?\",\"answer\":\"To investigate how Working Memory Capacity relates to Mathematical Performance among Pakistani secondary school students.\"},{\"question\":\"How were working memory capacity and mathematical performance measured?\",\"answer\":\"WMC was measured using the Figure Intersection Test, and mathematical performance was measured using the Mathematics Performance Test.\"},{\"question\":\"What differences were found by gender and medium of instruction?\",\"answer\":\"Male students performed better on the Mathematics Performance Test than female students, and English-medium students showed better WMC and MP than Urdu-medium students.\"}]","The Relationship between Students’ Working Memory Capacity and Mathematical Performance at Secondary School Level - Research Findings | PDF",1792082314]