Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sooner after I started was I hopelessly confused. The scenarios made no sense. I suck at math...
...paid a visit to a bespectacled math concentrator who lives upstairs. He was playing chess with his computer, but was still happy to stop and help...
Harvard-affiliated programs aimed the elementary school level also increased in the last two years, the report says. Most of the programs are intended to improve math and science education in the public schools, the report says...
Even girls who take the same math and science courses and do just as well on standardized tests are far less likely to consider technological careers. A study of Rhode Island high school seniors, for instance, found that 64% of boys but only 19% of girls taking physics and calculus planned to pursue science or engineering in college. Last week's report contends that girls' aversion to these fields limits their career options and future income...
...A.A.U.W. proposals offered last week lean toward such predictable remedies as improved teacher training or further studies and avoid bold proposals suggested by the research, such as sex-segregated math and science classes. Diane Ravitch, an Assistant Secretary of Education, complains that much of the report "is just special pleading and, frankly, whining." Opportunities are opening up, she says, and girls should be urged to take advanced courses, not told that they are victims. Chester Finn, director of Vanderbilt University's Educational Excellence Network, thinks disparities simply show that students have different interests and abilities. He considers gender complaints...