{"id":1364,"date":"2014-01-28T00:57:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T00:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesuitasburgos.es\/biblioteca\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2014-01-28T01:03:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T01:03:54","slug":"statistics-of-women-mathematicians-by-isabel-sutil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesuitasburgos.es\/biblioteca\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Statistics of Women Mathematicians by Isabel Sutil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Como trabajo de investigaci\u00f3n en el \u00e1rea de Matem\u00e1ticas, Isabel Sutil, alumna de 3\u00ba de ESO, ha navegado por Internet en busca de \u00a0 varios documentos (citados al final del art\u00edculo) en los que aparecen reflejadas las enormes\u00a0 diferencias de\u00a0 participaci\u00f3n de mujeres y hombres en congresos, conferencias y concursos de Matem\u00e1ticas en Europa y la situaci\u00f3n concreta de nuestro pa\u00eds.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Por otro lado, se aborda, de acuerdo con los estudios realizados por el New York Times, la poca atenci\u00f3n que se presta a las Matem\u00e1ticas en la escuela estadounidense. Parece ser que esta asignatura, en las denominadas \u00abHIGH SCHOOLS\u00bb\u00a0 se considera apropiada para asi\u00e1ticos, hijos de inmigrantes (procedentes de pa\u00edses que valoran las Matem\u00e1ticas) y \u00abpringados\u00bb (nerds). Veamos qu\u00e9 tiene que contarnos Isabel…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Checking news <\/span><\/span><\/span>about maths in some American newspapers I have found an article that caught my attention in the New York Times <\/span><\/span><\/span>(1)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup>. The article says the United States fail to develop mathematical abilities among students and, curiously, those who manage to success in this area are most of them immigrants or immigrants’ children from countries where education in Mathematics are more prized.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A survey shows that there are a lot of students with exceptional talent for Mathematics but they are rarely identified in this country. This happens because Maths is not really valued and because at Secondary schools it is thought that this subject is just for Asians and \u00abnerds\u00bb.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The<\/span><\/span><\/span> \u00abAmerican Mathematical Society\u00bb has analysed the results of an international competition for high school students called \u00abMath Olympics\u201d. These Olympics started in Romania in 1959 and about 500 high school students from 95 countries compete in it by teams. The American team participated for the first time in 1974. Each team is formed by six students chosen all around the country and trained in an intensive summer Maths camp.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0But what most caught my attention in this article was the small number of girls <\/span><\/span><\/span>who participate in these Olympics. The article says that no girl participated until 1988. The girl who participated that year in the competition won the silver medal (gold lost by a single point). Since then, only two girls have won the gold and both were of Chinese origins. In recent years only 13 girls have participated and 12 of them were of Asian origins (\u00abIglesias\u00bb was the surname of the thirteenth participant. It doesn’t say where she is from.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0After reading this information I was curious to know some more specific information about the presence of women in the survey and research of mathematics:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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