Math is hard!

[aylara]

From my newest Newsweek magazine came two articles I'd like to share with you.

The first, titled Math is Hard, Barbie Said, is an interesting little piece that explains why it seems that women in the U.S. lag far behind their international counterparts in mathematics

Comments

[cmdrhobbes]

I feel like I've read xome of Zakaria's other articles and become angered by the right-wing-itude of them. At least he's endorsing the right candidate.

[cmdrhobbes]

I seem to recall his face on something that I completely disagreed with, but it might have been some other slick lookin' guy in a suit and giant teeth.

[theinfamousmom]

We didn't have AP classes in the high schools I went to, but we did have a "track" system that had three tiers of classes according to the ability and/or career goals of the students. There was the college-prep track, the vocational track, and the special-needs track. But the classes weren't exclusive. Just because you were planning to get a job right out of high school didn't mean you were automatically shut out of advanced English, math, and science classes.

There were two physics classes. And only two girls among all those students. I was one, and my lab partner was the other one, and we regularly kicked butt in that class. She was a math whiz and I was really good at figuring stuff out (with or without the "proper" methodology--I was real good at working backwards from a plausible result to find reasonable looking fake data) so we made a winning team.

Those were the days. :)

[ithilien]

Thankfully my AP Physics and Calculus classes were *mostly* girls, so I just always assumed that girls could be good at math.

[mikeywashere]

i go to an all guys school, but i happen to know alot of girls who could wipe the floor with me mathematically.

let's face it, Sexism makes no sense.