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Are we "Math People" or "English People"? The earliest hint of verbal dexterity is enough to earn a language ability label w
Are we "Math People" or "English People"? The earliest hint of verbal dexterity is enough to earn a language ability label w
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2011-01-13
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Are we "Math People" or "English People"?
The earliest hint of verbal dexterity is enough to earn a language ability label while the slightest struggle with a mathematical concept might as well come with a forehead stamped "mathematically inept."
"The common wisdom in the United States is that mathematical ability is somehow innate, and there are people who, no matter how hard they try, will not be able to achieve in mathematics," said A1 Cuoco, director of the Center for Mathematics Education at Educational Department Center Inc, a nonprofit in Newton, who has taught math since the late 1960s.
Struggling in math is socially acceptable, while having trouble reading is reason for worry. Why the stigma around numbers?
Cuoco said the belief that you’ve got a math gene is "an American phenomenon." In the United States, he said, "kids from a very young age are put into two categories: those who get it and those who don’t. In other countries, the perspective is that if you work hard and apply yourself, anyone can achieve mathematics at an advanced high school level."
Abby Coyle, 15, of Newton, a sophomore at Dana Hall School, an all-girls campus in Wellesley, has long noticed educators putting math and English at opposite poles.
"It seems there is always a distinct classification between math and science and English and social studies," said Coyle. Part of making your way through elementary school, she said, is figuring out if you’re better at math or English. "Once you fit into one, you don’t concentrate on the other side," said Coyle, who said it has taken effort to see herself as good at both.
The cultural divide around math is not just about sorting students into math-focused and English-focused, but to make assumptions based on gender. Are boys better at math? Do girls soar in English? These may be common presumptions, but research suggests.
What can you infer from the passage?
选项
A、It is still skeptical why boys are better at mathematics than girls.
B、No one believes that girls are better at English than boys.
C、Evidence about this topic has been quite adequate.
D、There is no point in doing more research.
答案
A
解析
推断题型参见上题注释,另见全文最后一段:围绕数学的文化分隔不仅仅是关于将学生划分为学数学的或学英语的,而是按照性别来作假设。男孩子真的学数学比女孩子更好吗?女孩子的英语真的要远远好于男孩子吗?这一切也许是人们公认的假定,但调查研究暗示了这些。由此可推断出此段意为:即是假定、暗示不是证明,人们对为什么男孩子比女孩子数学好的观点仍持怀疑态度;因此A为答案。
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