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The worst part is that female students are more likely to notice the teacher's fearful body language, so you get this never ending cycle of girls developing fea
by LegitGandalf 7y ago
The worst part is that female students are more likely to notice the teacher's fearful body language, so you get this never ending cycle of girls developing fear of math, going into teaching and passing the fear on to the next generation.
- _bxg1 7y agoThat seems like a stretch.
- LegitGandalf 7y agoUniversity of Chicago study for you to peruse https://news.uchicago.edu/story/female-teachers-can-transfer-fear-math-and-undermine-girls-math-performance https://news.uchicago.edu/story/female-teachers-can-transfer...
- wnoise 7y agoEven assuming the study holds up, that doesn't mean that only the girls picked up the fear. It means only the girls were affected by the fear, by overly generalizing from this one example.
- LegitGandalf 7y agoYeah it could be that the boys noticed and ignored the fear. The impact on the girls is troubling though.