Impact of math confidence negligible? (Curriculum update: the latest developments in math, science, language arts and social studies).

Impact of math confidence negligible? (Curriculum update: the latest developments in math, science, language arts and social studies). TRUE: Girls tend to underestimate their math abilities in high school--despite their actual performance being just as good as that of boys. FALSE: This confidence issue pushes girls away from mathematically based college majors. According to according toprep.1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.2. In keeping with: according to instructions.3. researchers at the University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, it's two different factors that lead to girls' career choices. Analysis of data collected over 17 years as part of the Michigan Study of Adolescent ad��o��les��centadj.Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence.n.A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity; a teenager. Life Transitions found that how much girls believe in the ultimate utility of math, and how much they value working with and for people, are more important in making decisions about math-based majors and careers. The study is following approximately 1,700 southeastern Michigan students from sixth grade through college and beyond. Both boys and girls boys and girlsmercurialisannua. who are people-oriented tend to choose college majors in the biological sciences--medicine, environmental sciences and social sciences--rather than in the mathematically based sciences, which include engineering, physics and astronomy astronomy,branch of science that studies the motions and natures of celestial bodies, such as planets, stars, and galaxies; more generally, the study of matter and energy in the universe at large. . "It's not enough to simply try to raise girls' confidence levels," says co-researcher Jacquelynne Eccles, a professor of psychology and women's studies women's studiespl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)An academic curriculum focusing on the roles and contributions of women in fields such as literature, history, and the social sciences. and a research scientist in the IRWG IRWG Irish Republican Writers GroupIRWG Interface Requirements Working Group . She suggests that those who want to attract and retain women in math-based academic programs and careers develop different programs for girls and young women. "We need to develop interventions that will not only demonstrate the utility of mathematics, but also show how the mathematically based sciences do something concrete to help people," she says.