Boys and girls share similar math abilities at young ages

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There has been much speculation about whether lower female participation rates in STEM fields can be traced to an innate male superiority in math and science. But a new University of Chicago study wanted to test whether boys and girls actually show different mathematical abilities at their earliest developmental stages.

SPOILER ALERT: The researchers found no major differences in numerical processing between genders, noting “these findings indicate that boys and girls are equally equipped to reason about mathematics during early childhood.”

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MARS and math talks

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Our new MARS system is nothing new, in fact in our link for today we show a page from 2017 with great tips on how to perform math talks. This may help you do a successful math interview via mathstrategy.org

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Numbers and patterns

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the world is full of patterns and numbers, see it all here explained

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Modelling is fun and so useful

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They need to get it into their hands before they can get it into their heads. Well that can be difficult when there is lots of remote teaching going on but here is something we can use to accommodate that. A wonderful web based modeling tool.

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Cuisenaire rods

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We don’t like to advertise, and we are NOT getting paid anything, but this is a wonderful book with lots of things you can do with Cuisenaire rods. We always say it is not about the tool but about the talk and this book gives a great description with each exercise so you can have the right talk with this tool.

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