In the article below Professor Kim Beswick, the University of NSW (female) professor of mathematics education, is reported as saying about an international survey that found a huge gap between male and female ability in maths and science:
“There is no reason for there to be a difference between boys’ and girls’ performance in maths. It relates to the social stereotype of maths being a male thing, and STEM careers are more male dominated. And that subtly influences how teachers and parents interact with students around maths.”
Crap, crap, and crap again. The professor deserves to have her employment terminated for such ignorance.
Few things have shown more regularity through the centuries than the natural differences between male and female in maths and science ability.
The survey will yet again provide excuses for feminists to hound the Labor government for more money to reconstruct the female mind – at the expense of boys.
Boys have become the great victim of feminist irrationality.
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Gender gap in maths and science in Australia among worst in the world
Women’s Agenda, Jessie Tu, 5 December 2024
Australia boys are considerably outperforming girls in both maths and science, the latest study from a large-scale international analysis has found.
On Wednesday, The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) released the 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (Timss), which analysed the skills of Year 4 and Year 8 students across the world.
Roughly 14,000 Australian students were involved in the test, which remains the world’s longest running assessment of maths and science skills among school students.
It revealed that the gender gap in students’ maths performance is among the widest in the world, with the country’s male students in Year 4 achieving over twenty-points ahead of their female counterparts. Male students were found to be outperforming female students in both primary and high school.
“There is no reason for there to be a difference between boys’ and girls’ performance in maths,” Professor Kim Beswick told the Sydney Morning Herald. “It relates to the social stereotype of maths being a male thing, and STEM careers are more male dominated. And that subtly influences how teachers and parents interact with students around maths.”
The University of NSW professor of mathematics education added that girls are less confident than boys about their ability, even when the results do not reflect their beliefs.
Almost three quarter of Year 4 students in Australia met the proficiency benchmark in maths, compared with 64 per cent of students in Year 8. In science, over 70 per cent of students met the subject’s benchmarks in both year groups.
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