Posts tagged ‘math’

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, we’re reposting some older writing for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on Oct 17, 2009. It comes up a lot in discussions of ...

Despite the fact that I grew up to earn a degree in mathematics, I remember math classes in my elementary school as pretty much the dullest subject on earth. Which is probably one of the ...

Females Are Equal to Males in Math Skills, Large Study Shows These studies, all published in English between 1990 and 2007, looked at people from grade school to college and beyond. A second portion of ...

A friend of mine works in a biology lab working on cell motility and breast cancer research, and a while back she shared this amusing piece of marketing: Biology equipment boy band! And it’s actually ...

Alice Adams writes about What women want and how not to give it to them, which includes a list of things companies do that cause their attempts at hiring more women to be ineffective. Chantaal ...

From the subverting stereotypes file: In an interview with Sherry Turkle, Christine Alvarado credits playing with My Little Pony for fostering her love for mathematics… (edit: was Christine, not Sherry as I originally published. oops, ...

Girls may learn math anxiety from female teachers. Not a new theory, just updated research. One of the researchers says, “It’s actually surprising in a way, and not. People have had a hunch that teachers ...

On the work-and-school front: Design shop hiring worker/owner in Berkeley or Boston; women, PoC, & LGBTIQQ encouraged. Also, there’s a $10K scholarship now available for female undergraduates studying game design. An oldie but a pretty-goodie: ...

It comes up a lot in discussions of women in computer science, women who write code, women in open source. Eventually, someone brings up the fact that women score slightly lower on math tests. Clearly, ...

Margaret Atwood doesn’t think she writes science fiction. Ursula K Le Guin would like to disagree. (A review of “Year of the Flood”.) sarahtales takes on Uhura, Harriet Potter, and Jo from Little Women and ...