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Logical Thinking Ability, Gender Differences In High School Mathematics Research

Posted on:2009-01-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J X HanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2207360242494978Subject:Subject teaching
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Human psychologies have many commonalities, but there are individual differences and differences between groups. Gender differences are, a kind of group differences, is the psychological differences shown by men and women because of different physiological factors. Is there a significant difference between them in mathematical ability? And what are the implications on the math logical thinking ability of high school students? The full mark of the College Entrance Examination in Mathematics is 150 points, under the grim situation, and in the voice of the new curriculum reform, there are higher and higher demands on the students'abilities. As for the cultivation of mathematics abilities, the training of logic thinking ability is essential.In my more than 10 years'teaching experience, I have found that male and female students who had the same mathematics grades when they just entered high school, in a period of time, will have obvious difference in their mathematics achievement, that is, girls are not better than boys. In view of this issue, from three schools I collected the result analysis of some students in the mid-term examination of Zibo city, and I did some tests on logical thinking ability, a questionnaire survey, the three aspects of the results have been analyzed. My reason analysis ranges from physiological factors such as the brain mechanisms and genetic differences between men and women, from psychological factors such as cognition, memory, thinking, will, confidence, interest, and other social environment factors such as gender stereotypes, social culture, education, so I detect the students'logical thinking ability.For the overall development of students, we must take the advantages of mathematical ability of male and female students, and take corresponding teaching measures. Teachers ought to update their teaching methods, guide students'learning, establish a correct concept of gender differences, make sure their implementation of teaching agree with gender differences. From teaching of concepts, propositions and reasoning, teachers should develop female students'logical thinking, and increase female students'interest in learning and enhance their self-confidence to study mathematics. And teachers should develop the differences in mathematics between male and female students as an education resources, to help girls learn mathematics better, so as to let more girls enter Universities, and open up a new world in the field of this mathematical science.
Keywords/Search Tags:high school mathematics, logical thinking ability, gender differences
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