Questions tagged [women]
For questions related to women in mathematics.
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What female mathematician can I introduce to my High School students?
I enjoy talking about Pythagoras when I teach the Pythagorean theorem. I sometimes mention Descartes when introducing Cartesian coordinates. And Leibniz and Newton are mentioned in many calculus ...
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How to encourage women to study mathematics?
What are different ways we can get women to study mathematics? In my own experience, the higher the math class, the less women in the class. Most women tend to go on the math education track and do ...
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Reference request for studies on gender in math examples, homework problems, or math exams
I am looking for a study or reference on gender in math problems given in mathematics.
In math texts or even on math exams, if there is a word problem involving people, these people or "characters" ...