My son goes to a STEM magnet middle school - his classes are split pretty evenly. Even his advanced math class. And his math and science teachers are women which help, I think. Our daughter is in the "high" math group and LOVES it so much. We are looking at sending her to an all girls math and science middle school…

My partner's stepsister is an almost six foot tall, pretty blonde woman who did cheerleading in high school and graduated with above a 4.0 because she took college classes, (as the story goes I don't know the specifics of how she got such high grades except she worked herself into the ground to do it) and then when on…

I need to verify it again, but I'm pretty sure it's in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" I just remember being blown away by how much these experiences can happen even in situations where people are clearly experts.

It's so sad. I actually had a world-class chem teacher who told me I was her best student and saw that I got the Chem award at awards night. Sadly, she left and I was stuck taking Advanced Chem with a man who understood less than we did and constantly called me a, "whiner" because I would ask questions, which he…

Yup. And then they blame the lack of women in STEM fields on girls being less interested in science. Nope, we just learn very early one that our achievements are not valued and our presence is not appreciated.

My 11 year old daughter was certified GATE in Math two years ago, which delighted her 3rd grade teacher, who encouraged her, and royally pissed off her 4th grade teacher, who openly favored the boys in the class over the girls. Mercifully her 5th grade teacher doesn't play favorites, and encourages all of her…

I'm going to keep repeating this because it's a perfect example: Richard Feynman told a story of a math teacher telling Feynman that HE was wrong on a math teaching thing when it came to Feynman's daughter.

I graded for my mother sometimes when she taught physics/chemistry and unless you want to fail 50+% of your students you need to award points for attempting problems and methodology on math problems.

So my ten year old is in an advanced math course, working a year and a half ahead of the regular curriculum. The class is two thirds girls.

I was wondering the same thing. Perhaps if the answer was right, but the work was not shown the teacher would assume the boys understood how they got their answer, but doubted if the girls did? I'm not really sure how else the grading could be subjective in the case of math.

I imagine that is where the discrepancy happens. If a boy doesn't write out a step the teacher might judge that they inherently knew it anyway. If a girl doesn't write out a step but comes to the same answer then they could judge it as luck?

How can one score more poorly in math if teachers see their names? Unlike humanities, answers in math are definitive. 1+1 is always 2. Are we talking about showing one's work?

That show introduced me to Nathan Fillion. It will always have a special place in my heart.

He WAS really good in it! I was in college when it was broadcast; I will vouch for his talent in that show as not just being a figment of baby teen brain!

i love mean drunks.

God, I hope so. If someone could convince me she gets mean- and I am talking like JOAN CRAWFORD DRUNK mean, I think I would follow her to the ends of the earth.

maddie no

I straight up love that movie. And old Ryan Reynolds can still get it.

As a single parent of sons it was very important to me that my sons did not become predators. From middle school on I would tell them regularly that it is wrong, it is morally reprehensible to have sex with a girl/woman who is incapable of giving consent. I was very proud when I heard from another parent that one of…

Cathy Young is the real-life Rita Skeeter