Crunch the numbers from a recent study, and the results might surprise you: Girls are just as good at math as the boys.
UW-Madison psychology professor Janet Hyde led a study that looked at SAT results and math scores from 7 million students who were tested in accordance with the No Child Left Behind act. And the numbers showed the average scores of boys and girls were virtually the same.
“Our country has a lot of stereotypes that boys are better than girls at math, and we have current evidence that both teachers and parents think that that’s true,” said Hyde. “But the data don’t show that at all — at least with these very current samples.”