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This article seeks to examine gender differences across the mathematics curriculum in the various topic areas and mathematical abilities. It is suggested that a profile of these differences, when compared with students at different grade levels or across curricula, would be more fruitful for classroom teachers and curriculum developers. Breakdown and discriminant function statistics reveal that boys performed better than girls in Geometry and excelled in comprehension, and solving routine and non-routine problems. Girls were better at mathematical manipulation problems.
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Cheung, K.C. Gender differences in the junior secondary (grade 7) mathematics curriculum in Hong Kong. Educational Studies in Mathematics 20, 97–103 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00356043
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00356043