| Description |
xii, 162 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Cassell education |
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Cassell education.
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| Contents |
(cont.) Women and mathematical research in Italy during the period 1887-1946 / Giuseppina Fenaroli, Fulvia Furinghetti, Antonio Garibaldi and Anna Somaglia |
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Gender and classroom practice / Gilah Leder -- 'They look at you in absolute horror' : women writing and talking about mathematics / Zelda Isaacson -- Mathematics : pleasure or pain? / Máire Rodgers -- Thoughts on power and pedagogy / Pat Rogers -- American female and male university professors' mathematical attitudes and life histories / Lyn Taylor -- Curriculum development and gender / Heleen Verhage -- Humanizing calculus : a case study in curriculum development / Mary Barnes and Mary Coupland -- Women and maths in Australia : a confidence-building experience for teachers and students / Beth Marr and Sue Helme -- Mathematical achievement of grade 12 girls in fifteen countries / Gila Hanna, Erika Kündiger and Christine Larouche -- Girls and mathematics in Singapore : the case of GCE '0' level mathematics / Berinderjeet Kaur -- True or false : primary school girls do badly at maths / Evangelie Tressou-Milonas -- Graduate education in the mathematical sciences : factors influencing women and men / Joanne Rossi Becker -- Where have the mathematicians gone in New Zealand? / Prudence Purser and Helen Wily |
| Summary |
Papers presented at a symposium held during the Sixth International Congress on Mathematics Education, Budapest, Hungary, in 1988 |
| Analysis |
Mathematical ability Sex differences Congresses |
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Mathematics |
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Mathematics 1961- |
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Mathematics Study and teaching Psychological aspects Congresses |
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Women in mathematics Congresses |
| Notes |
"This book is the outcome of the Women and Mathematics Topic Area at the Sixth International Congress on Mathematics Education held in Budapest, Hungary, in 1988." -- p. [vii] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Educational realization
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Mathematical ability -- Sex differences -- Congresses.
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Mathematical ability -- Sex differences.
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses.
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects.
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
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Mathematics -- 1961-
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Mathematics.
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Sex differences in education.
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Sex discrimination in education.
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Women in mathematics -- Congresses.
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Women in mathematics.
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Women mathematicians.
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Women -- Education.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Burton, Leone, 1936-
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| LC no. |
91189518 |
| ISBN |
0304322792 |
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