The Influence of Sports Participation on Students’ Mathematics Academic Performance: A Systematic Review

Sports participation has been regarded as an important aspect of the physical, social, and cognitive development of students.” The main aim of this is to find the relationship between sports participation and students’ academic performance, especially in mathematics. The PRISMA framework was used by the researchers to guide this systematic review (Moher et al., 2009) [13]. After the literature review, it was found that sports participation and sports activities are positively associated with students’ academic performance, particularly in math, students’ motivation, students’ self-esteem, students’ cognitive development, and so on. In contrast, there are also a few researchers who observed that sports participation is neither negatively associated nor indirectly connected with academic performance. Lastly, this research concluded that sports participation is an important aspect of students’ academic progress, and sports activities are important dimensions of students’ holistic development.