Equity in mathematics education : influences of feminism and culture /

"Research and intervention over the past three decades have greatly increased our understanding of the relationship between gender and participation in mathematics education. Research, most of it quantitative, has taught us that gender differences in mathematics achievement and participation ar...

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Other Authors: Kaiser, Gabriele, Rogers, Pat
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1995.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction: Equity in Mathematics Education / Gabriele Kaiser / Pat Rogers
  • Ch. 2 Connecting Women with Mathematics / James Morrow / Charlene Morrow
  • Ch. 3 METRO Achievement Program: Helping Inner-City Girls Excel / Denisse R. Thompson
  • Ch. 4 Who Wants to Feel Stupid All of the Time? / Olive Fullerton
  • Ch. 5 Assisting Women to Complete Graduate Degrees / Lynn Friedman
  • Ch. 6 National Network of Women: Why, How, and For What? / Barbro Grevholm
  • Ch. 7 Women Do Maths / Helene Kayler / Louise Lafortune / Claudie Solar
  • Ch. 8 'Girls and Computers': Making Teachers Aware of the Problems / Cornelia Niederdrenk-Felgner
  • Ch. 9 Common Threads: Perceptions of Mathematics Education and the Traditional Work of Women / Mary Harris
  • Ch. 10 Culture, Gender and Mathematics / Gurcharn Singh Kaeley
  • Ch. 11^