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Study urges more effort to build kids' math skills
By The New York Times
Article Last Updated: 10/10/2008 12:30:43 AM MDT
The United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys, especially among those who could excel at the highest levels, a new study asserts, and girls who do succeed in the field are almost all immigrants or the daughters of immigrants from countries where mathematics is more highly valued. The study suggests that while many girls have exceptional talent in math — the talent to become top math researchers, scientists and engineers — they are rarely identified in the United States. A major reason, according to the study, is that American culture does not highly value talent in math, and so discourages girls — and boys, for that matter — from excelling in the field.
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Read the research behind this story in Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
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This is very interesting. I notice that tiny Bulgaria, with a total population of about 8 million, managed to put some 21 girls on their International Mathematical Olympiad teams compared to 3 from the U.S. Man, if Bulgaria can put ten times as many math-girls out than we can, what does that say!?!?
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