Girls are weaker in maths and hate maths

i really don agree ....being a boy i hate maths...usually i don pass in maths...my friend used to help in my exam...

Seeing as I'm a female math major I'm inclined to disagree with you.... However I won't! To be honest I've noticed that girls do tend to fare worse in mathematics. However the only reason they do so is because we expect them to. A big part of what makes us us is actually our environment, and that includes what society expects of us. We don't do it on purpose, it's just built in. Now if I lived in an area where girls are expected to be better at math (which I have before), then the girls did better than the boys.

No it's how we are conditioned, my mother and grandmother were both engineers, that means math knowledge. Myself as soon as we got to substituting letters for numbers I bailed out, but love geometry because I could see how I could use it in daily living.

From my short life experience I can say that girls are smarter than boys. At school the girls were always way smarter than the boys even at mathematics. But somehow the mathematicians and scientists are men. Even the best chefs are men. How the hell is that posible?

hey abhi.....man its just another misconception that girls are bad at maths.....they've got equally good brains just like us boys....and it depends on person to person that in what way and in which field they develop their interest....some do it in maths and some in other different subjects..... i even know some of my friends who happen to be girls and have strong maths.....even my sister loves maths...i am average in maths and my bro is weak....he simply hate maths.....so u see there is no gender biasing in this case..... i hope i answered u coreectly and cleared your doubt.....

for me, it seems that teachers are the majority of the problem. most boys are known to be more hands on than girls. so teachers will go over to a boy that needs help with an experiment and explain how he should do it. where as when girl asks for help, the teacher comes over and does it leaving the girl to watch. it's a stereotype that needs to be broken but it is still in our school.

Let me introduce you to my son who just HATES maths! I don’t know what will happen to him…all he can think of is history and the arts and all those documents on History Channel and Discovery doesn’t help me a bit! Coming to your topic however, I think its basically a misconception which we women are also guilty of propagating. For centuries, we have not had any women scientist or mathematician of repute only coz it was the duty of the woman to keep the home fires burning and to put food on the table. Pursuit of science or maths was not her job, instead her job was to see that her scientist / mathematician husband / son / brother got all the comforts he required to carry on with uninterrupted research. Similarly you will not find any women painter of repute either…but women are thought to be good in arts! We have actually stereotyped and confined women to home cooking and family stitching and sewing and weaving. However, now girls are more and more into education yet the misconception has not yet disappeared. It will take more time and more efforts from all sides.

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I don't think so. me and my mom have always been really good at math and a lot better at it then all the men in our family. Math was my best subject in school. i think its probably around even... but who knows..it might be different for parts of the world/other states

Hello abhi_dude. I have to partly agree with you, and partly disagree with you here. The reason being is that I did learn in school (maybe in the 7th or 8th grade) that men, on average, are better at math then girls. However, women, on average, are usually good with English and Arts/Music. That is what I learned and I think there is some truth to it. However, when I was in highschool I saw many girls that were really good at math. I think there were slightly more boys that were good at math than girls. Yet, I did see girls doing a little better in English. As far as Music and Arts, I think men and women did around the same. Therefore, no I dont really think that women are weaker in math. I think it is a stereotype, though if you compare them to most men, then they probably do not do quite as well.

i don't think that this is a natural occurrence..math is a hard subject but women don't really hate it..i think men also do..well, i am a woman and an engineering student and love math..i can say that i am good at it also.. a case to case basis..

That's not true with me. I'm not a really big fan of math, but I don't hate it, and I'm definitely not weak in it. I get better marks in math than a lot of people in my class. But of course, usually the male mind can comprehend the complicated formulas and numbers better than females, but that doesn't mean girls are bad at it. It's this whole sexism issue again. But I definitely don't agree with your statement.

That is too sweeping a statement. As a Singaporean, I feel proud of the kids in my country. The collective standard of math is among the top in the world. However, even among the kids, there is a notable difference. Chinese generally do better in Math, Malay are weaker. Probably due to the mother tongue. Chinese language is a much better language for doing mental sums. Probably due to the culture. Chinese are more competitive in nature, and Malay tend to take life easier. In a sense, Malay are much happier, live in the moment and enjoy. So I dont agree that girls hate maths and are weaker. The method of teaching may not be suitable for artistic brains. Change the method of learning, and the weaker students will enjoy and learn.

i totally agree with you, when i was a little girl, i am good at maths, but as i grow up, i felt maths boring and difficut, of course i get the low scores.i am upset. i don't know why ,don't want to know the reason,whatever i left school. say goodby to maths.

My daughter would calculate 95% of the guys around here into the ground. I had her doing algebra in kindergarden. She's a wiz at it. It's all a matter of training & thought processes.

I'm a girl and I love math and excelled in it all thru school. I think your're making a false assumption. I never heard that analogy and I think it is kind of foolish. Most of my teachers in math were women as well. Either you like it or you don't but I doubt gender has any bearing on it.

No way!!! I am very good at math. I have a very high IQ (above 152) and also am a member of Mensa. I am really good at solving math problems, puzzles, and also love board games. I also don't think girls have lived up to bad reputation. In India, the pass ratio of girls to boys is more for the girls in many places. The stereotyping of girls not good at math may also be one of the reason why this rumour gains ground in the first place.

Nope! I disagree. I have high grades and excel in mathematics since kinder school until college. LOL.

I disagree with you. My sister has good mark for this subject. I think math is a good subject, it can make people have good imagination. Of course to become a good mathematics we must often to try math's problems.

I don't think girls are really bad in maths. In Malaysia Girls and male are both equally good on maths and science subjective matters.