Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have trouble meeting girls in Math 55. The problem might not be yours. Researchers at Johns opkins University say they have evidence that females probably have less mathematical ability than males, limiting their achievement in the field...
Camilla Benbow and Julian Stanley acknowledge that differences in the upbringings of boys and girls as well as their different attitudes toward math are major reasons for the very small number of creative female mathematicians--some experts contend that you can count the number of women doing notable work in mathematics on one hand. But, the two Johns Hopkins psychologists believe that such social factors can only account for part of the difference in mathematical performance between males and females...
...mathematical aptitude among boys and girls in the tested samples were hard to ignore. Administering the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) to seventh and eight-graders with observed ability in mathematics. Stanley found that boys perform on part with girls on the verbal portion, but do much better on the math segment. The largest differences were between the highest scoring boys and the highest scoring girls, and, in each of the six talent searches between 1972 and 1979, the top performer...
...authors: of the study emphasize that all the boys and girls tested had proven ability for and expressed interest in mathematics. The girls tested did not have any sort of "math anxiety"; instead, the differences were found among the most motivated and able junior high school students...
Peace Alliance members will leave petitions in all student mailboxes if they do not collect 500 signatures soon. Vassos Hadzilacos, an Alliance member and a first year graduate student in applied math, said yesterday...