Girls only.In 1993, three California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). schools decided to have all-girl class room for math and science. As girls reach high school, they tend to fall behind boys in math or lose interest in it. The schools decided that teaching them separately might help solve the problem of boys dominating discussion, receiving more teacher time, and undermining girls' self-confidence. One student reported that in the all-male classes, boys egged each other on to see who could finish a problem first. In the all-girl classes, if someone did not understand triangulation triangulation: see geodesy. The use of two known coordinates to determine the location of a third. Used by ship captains for centuries to navigate on the high seas, triangulation is employed in GPS receivers to pinpoint their current location on earth. or matrix logic, those who had figured it out stopped work to explain it to those who had not. Some researchers who have documented sexual bias in education aren't aren't Contraction of are not. See Usage Note at ain't. aren't are not aren't be too sure about the single-sex approach. They favour better teacher training and restructured classrooms that include cooperative learning cooperative learning Education theory A student-centered teaching strategy in which heterogeneous groups of students work to achieve a common academic goal–eg, completing a case study or a evaluating a QC problem. See Problem-based learning, Socratic method. and other techniques known to help girls. |
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