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Filed under: In the news, EducationWhen I was a senior in high school, I told my high school counselor that I wanted to take Journalism (goof around with my friends while publishing the school paper) and Child Development (goof around with my friends while helping out a local kindergarten teacher) instead of Physics and Calculus. Because I'd reached my math requirements for graduation, he let me. I'm still a little miffed at both of us. While it didn't hold me back in college, it could have, and we should have had the foresight to realize that. Though the idea that girls and math don't mix has been slowly (and gladly) fading, women still lag behind men in math and science undergrad degrees. But a recent study has found that, in grades 2 through 11, girls score just as well as boys on math achievement tests. Twenty years ago, girls kept up with boys in elementary school, but their scores dropped off in high school, evidence that the new attitude is working. Girls are learning that they belong in math and science classes too. Though girls still lag slightly behind on SAT math scores (533 to 499), researchers say that's because there are more girls than boys taking the SATs to being with.For more reading on this topic, check out LiveScience and their Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math, and Science. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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