Math Scores Show No Gap for Girls:
Although boys in high school performed better than girls in math 20 years ago, the researchers found, that is no longer the case. The reason, they said, is simple: Girls used to take fewer advanced math courses than boys, but now they are taking just as many.
Which brings to mind the xkcd cartoon:
Yesterday Kim, Kyra, and Zoe went to the lego store. They bought me presents: A spaceship and a robot. So when I got home from work we (kyra mostly, me and kim helping, zoe picking up the pieces and putting them back in the box everytime we dumped them out) built the robot and then Kyra and Zoe played with it.
They called him Wally because he did look very much like Wall-E. And Kyra had some interesting dialog: Wall-E cleaned up the earth, the doll made it messy, then they both left for space. Zoe was content to have the lego man climb the stairs to Kyras bunk bed over and over.
The takeaway: Both my girls were playing legos last night. And using those lego’s to build space going robots. I am going to be the biggest sucker you’ve ever seen once they get me to the lego store.
