Wow, I believe this article is very true! Throughout this article it was debated whether or not boys are better at math than girls. Looking at data from the 1990s, the results from SAT scores showed that yes, boys are better at math than girls. However, one of the main reasons for this is stereotyping girls as bad at math. When girls are literally told that they are bad at math and that boys are always better, it will lower their confidence and the result will show that they are in fact bad at math. BUT now there is new data showing that the boys had better look out because the girls are showing major improvement. Evidence provided by many, many schools of different grades showed that there was little difference between boys and girls performance in math.
I don’t normally hear about this subject anymore, but when I was younger I remember the phrase that guys are smarter when it come to math. I certainty do not agree that boys are smarter than girls. In my school, the advanced math class is pretty much equal when it comes to boys and girls.
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