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bounty44 -> RE: £500,000 to help girls get degrees - despite them already doing better than boys at university (1/5/2017 5:36:08 AM)
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in part to answer your statement---at the levels being tested, the math that exists in the sciences is much less than the math that exists by itself. that is, I can still be good at science and not good at math because the former isn't really requiring the latter to the degree it will later in education.
I also wouldn't put them on par with each other in terms of the thinking (at least at that grade level) such that if you are good at one, you are good at the other. science at that grade is less math, and more reading, which lead is a nice segue to this:
while i am here, this is respectmen's territory here:
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By contrast, PISA has found that girls consistently outstrip boys in reading, with girls outperforming by 27 points on average, but that gender gap is narrowing.
Between 2009 and 2015, the gender gap in reading narrowed by 12 points on average across the 35 OECD countries.
In math, boys outperformed girls by eight points, with the difference largest in Austria, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon and Spain.
one frequently hears about gender gap in math (and science) being unfavorable to females, but does anyone ever hear about the much larger discrepancy, unfavorable to males, when it comes to reading?
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