Boys continue to outperfirm girls in math portion of SAT

Submitted by ThomasI on Sat, 2015-09-12 09:16

Article here. Excerpt:

'The College Board released its 2015 SAT college-entrance test results this week, and the overall results were somewhat disappointing (“ugly” according to AEI’s Rick Hess’s article below), see Washington Post article “SAT scores at lowest level in 10 years, fueling worries about high school” and the National Review article “The New SAT Results Aren’t Pretty,” by AEI scholar Rick Hess, who points out that the “scores on the SAT have sunk to the lowest point since the venerable college-admission test was revamped in 2005.”

As in the past, my main interest in the annual SAT test results is the ongoing gender gap in favor of boys for the SAT math test, and this year wasn’t any different than previous years. ...'

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I have done everything I could to get my daughter to love and excel at math.

I mixed food colors to teach her set theory when she was a toddler.

We played with gyrosopes and tops to teach her algebra.

We counted jellybeans in a jar to teach her calculus.

I put down the foundation for geometry and trigonometry by brain teasers.

She does not like math.

She is only 13, but she speaks three languages and plays three musical instruments. I tried.

(She also thinks feminists are stupid and now posts her thoughts on this on the various sites she visits. And she takes on those who disagree and she argues well.)

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Submitted by ThomasI on Sat, 2015-09-12 15:13