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Posted on 09/26/2023 1:56:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
IT has been claimed for a long time that boys are inherently better at mathematics than girls, and this has led to intense debate on the issue.
According to gender stereotypes in mathematics, girls are less confident in their arithmetic skills and experience greater anxiety and this eventually lowers their test scores.
However, it is important to rely on scientific evidence and extensive research to determine whether this stereotype has any basis in reality.
Is it true that men have an advantage in learning mathematics?
Experts and research have found that there are only slight differences in the maths performance of boys and girls; these differences depend on several factors, including a pupil’s age and maths proficiency and the type of maths they are attempting.
A meta-analysis on gender differences in mathematics performance showed that males have an advantage when the mathematical concepts require more reasoning and are more spatial in nature.
This is in the context of solving problems in geometry and calculus, typically taught in the higher secondary-school grades.
It also found that females have an advantage in early primary-school years when mathematics consists of computational knowledge and speed.
Research also shows that at times, there were no differences and in some cases, an advantage for girls to do more basic numerical skills and math problems that have a set procedure for solving them.
Age and the type of math might have an impact on research findings simultaneously. For instance, two recent studies on the gender differences in children’s earliest numerical abilities found no gender differences in infants and children’s basic maths skills.
Findings also suggest that girls and boys learned math at similar rates, and boys did not have a higher aptitude for learning math or for processing numbers compared to their female counterparts.
No one is better in anything unless one has the desire to learn it and it is not gender that determines our interests but our habits that dictate what we are good at.
SOURCES
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359013929_Understanding_the_Symbolic_Effects_of_Gender_Representation_A_Multi-Source_Study_in_Education
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47642285_New_Trends_in_Gender_and_Mathematics_Performance_A_Meta-Analysis
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07370000903221809
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-018-0028-7
https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cdev.13044
Not me and my daughters! We are all strong at math.
Nobody needs to watch any retarded “jackass” movies to know anything.
Just sayin’.
Early NACA?
Doesn’t take 6 guys to write a page worth of basic astrodynamics.
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No clue. I just figured they were a bunch of guys doing a bunch of hard math, took ladders you know, and that's it. ;O)
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I hate math and shopping.
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Gender Studies majors
Mathematics was my favorite subject. I learned algebra, calculus, complex variables, differential equations and statistics. I got A’s in all of my math classes, and I loved them.
Unfortunately, none of the jobs I had for over the past 40 years did not require any math beyond what one can do by counting his fingers. It was total waste of my time.
My husband is great at math. I’m the spelling, grammar, and proper English person in our household. (Of course, in this comment, I’ll probably make several errors.)
Hubby can measure the side of a house and calculate the angles, and then yell down from the top of the ladder, the measurements of the next siding board he needs. He once tried to explain how he did that using algebra or calculus (I forget which), but neither I nor his work crew could understand what the heck he was talking about.
Give me a document to proof-read and edit. That, I can handle. But, do not give me any math equations and do not try to explain the equations to me. I’ll not get it.
Our sons are also excellent at math. It’s simple to them and they can’t understand why I just “do not get it”.
I’ll leave the math to the men. I say men’s brains are hard-wired for math because God wanted them to be able to build houses, or calculate the length between them and the animal they needed to bring down for food.
Men understand the time it takes to walk from the back door to the trash dumpster and return in time for the eggs and bacon to be done. They can also calculate the amount of time it takes for the wife to be royally ticked off if they do not complete that chore once asked.
Yep. Men are definitely hard-wired for math. And I say, let’s leave it to them.
“The previous 100 years of testing data on the subject has consistently shown that the population of males has more extreme tails”
That was before transgenderism.
This is how it happened:
The Star is out of Malaysia; the author is a relatively unknown journalist with a relatively unknown degree from a relatively unknown university writing for a generally unknown media outlet.
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Lol, of course. The stupid, hair brained, and irresponsible things I did as a boy cause my wife, in spite of the many years we have spent together, to regard me with some head shaking curiosity, which is no mean feat in light of those many years.
I related an experience to her recently, which caused her to mutter she had never done things like that.
But those things were amusingly common in the lives of nearly all guys I have ever met!
Yes, yes I see that now. She obviously knows what she's doing, those guys are riveted. That line she's drawing has to have a curial impact on the angle of the dangle in relation to the gluteus maximus theorem of the mathematical attractor.
“Experts and research have found that there are only slight differences in the maths performance of boys and girls; these differences depend on several factors, including [...] maths proficiency”
Wait, so you’re saying math proficiency depends on math proficiency?
We wives who didn’t do “things like that” are very happy that our husbands have outgrown most of the “stupid, hare brained, and irresponsible” things of the past. We wouldn’t have done them, but in some ways, we are glad y’all did, because those things shaped you into becoming the great husbands that you are.
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