Showing posts with label girls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label girls. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

As a new school-year starts, a Latin Square poem

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 With MATH in the middle,   here is a LATIN-SQUARE poem that starts and ends with GIRLS  !  girls do great math...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

What Math Teachers Do

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     They ignore me.  I      raise my hand -- wave it      to ask questions, to      offer answers -- but      they call on the boys. ...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Encouragement from fathers

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     It was my observation as a professor in a mostly-male mathematics department that the men who joined me in supporting opportunities for...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Sex, Maths, and the Brain

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I found this poetry in an abstract (with a link posted at "Women in Maths" on Facebook ) for a lecture by Professor Gina Rippon e...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Women in Maths -- on Facebook

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     Recently I prepared an item for Rachel Levy's Grandma Got STEM blog that told a bit about my granddaughters who like math.  My pre...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Girls who like math

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Often I think about the interactions of girls with mathematics and recently I have been feeling delighted that all of my school-age granddau...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Barbie (b 1959) said (c 1990) "math is hard"

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On April 24 I had the pleasure of reading at the Nora School with Martin Dickinson and Michele Wolf .  Back in March I had posted Dickinson...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Because the mind circles an idea

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Besides eight books of poetry and a memoir, California poet Lucille Lang Day has co-authored a textbook, How to Encourage Girls in Math and...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Where are the Women?

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Here is a small  square poem about a paradox that's been on my mind recently.                Little Women                In school,...
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