The gender gap in math and science flies in the face of what Tom Bloch has seen in his classroom.<br /><br />Tom Bloch: This is something I don't understand at all, this gender gap. Consistently, I have so many girls in my classes who excel and love math, and so I don't understand it. I think it is just a great fallacy to think that males do better than females in math and science, but my personal experiences suggest otherwise. <br />Early on in our school, we used to put girls and boys in separate classes in the middle school thinking that they would do better if they were in single-sex classes. And I think there is maybe some merit to that concept. We don't do that today more for operational reasons than anything else. But as I said, I just... I don't get it, because I suspect in my classes this year, the girls in my classes are doing every bit as well, if not better, than the boys. <br /> <br />Recorded on: October 13, 2008 <br /> <br /><br />Tom Bloch: This is something I don't understand at all, this gender gap. Consistently, I have so many girls in my classes who excel and love math, and so I don't understand it. I think it is just a great fallacy to think that males do better than females in math and science, but my personal experiences suggest otherwise. <br />Early on in our school, we used to put girls and boys in separate classes in the middle school thinking that they would do better if they were in single-sex classes. And I think there is maybe some merit to that concept. We don't do that today more for operational reasons than anything else. But as I said, I just... I don't get it, because I suspect in my classes this year, the girls in my classes are doing every bit as well, if not better, than the boys. <br /> <br />Recorded on: October 13, 2008
