http://feministchemists.com/2009/05/10/american-culture-derails-girl-math-whizzes/ Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:04:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://feministchemists.com/2009/05/10/american-culture-derails-girl-math-whizzes/comment-page-1/#comment-1016 If Babbage HAD built his “Difference Engine” « nosleepingdogs Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:14:18 +0000 http://feministchemists.com/?p=377#comment-1016 [...] Feminist Chemists cites a brand-new study by the American Mathematical Society: In elementary school, girls do as well as or better in math than boys. In middle school, girls with an inclination for math begin to lose interest and fall behind, mostly due to peer pressure and societal expectations. Throughout middle and high school, social stigma and lack of appropriately challenging educational opportunities for the mathematically precocious becomes a hard reality in most American schools. Consequently, gifted girls, even more so than boys, often camouflage their mathematical talent to fit in well with their peers. [...] [...] Feminist Chemists cites a brand-new study by the American Mathematical Society: In elementary school, girls do as well as or better in math than boys. In middle school, girls with an inclination for math begin to lose interest and fall behind, mostly due to peer pressure and societal expectations. Throughout middle and high school, social stigma and lack of appropriately challenging educational opportunities for the mathematically precocious becomes a hard reality in most American schools. Consequently, gifted girls, even more so than boys, often camouflage their mathematical talent to fit in well with their peers. [...]

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