Are Boys Better at Math Than Girls?
Is your daughter bad at math? Do you wonder if it's a “girl thing” – that girls generally aren't good at math, anyway? Hear from our math expert, Daniel Ansari, as he discusses...
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It's often said that girls perform more poorly in math than boys. In actuality, all the research that we know of shows us that there are more gender similarities than there are gender differences in math. On basic math processing measures, on high-level math processing measures, boys and girls around the globe perform very similarly. The stereotype that girls perform more poorly in math compared to boys has a lot of consequences. If a teacher has that stereotype in their heads, that might lead them to treat girls and boys in their math classroom differently. It might also affect how girls see themselves, what kinds of careers they might pursue, because the stereotype is having an effect on the individuals themselves. They might avoid science technolog...
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It's often said that girls perform more poorly in math than boys. In actuality, all the research that we know of shows us that there are more gender similarities than there are gender differences in math. On basic math processing measures, on high-level math processing measures, boys and girls around the globe perform very similarly. The stereotype that girls perform more poorly in math compared to boys has a lot of consequences. If a teacher has that stereotype in their heads, that might lead them to treat girls and boys in their math classroom differently. It might also affect how girls see themselves, what kinds of careers they might pursue, because the stereotype is having an effect on the individuals themselves. They might avoid science technolog...
