Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on September 5, 2007 - 04:51.
It is difficult to get either males or females in my 7th and 8th grade math and computer applications classes interested in anything more than the basics of what they need to know to get out of school to leave our relatively low-economic status area. It is difficult to get them to dream of a life different from the poverty they know, but I continue to encourage them to go farther than what they can see today. When I entered college in 1977, I was one of very few female math majors and that continued when I got my M.S. in math in 1983. To me, math is more than just a tool. It is a way to describe the world as we know it and also a way to change it for the betterment of all. I'm going to continue to try!
It is difficult to get
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on September 5, 2007 - 04:51.
It is difficult to get either males or females in my 7th and 8th grade math and computer applications classes interested in anything more than the basics of what they need to know to get out of school to leave our relatively low-economic status area. It is difficult to get them to dream of a life different from the poverty they know, but I continue to encourage them to go farther than what they can see today. When I entered college in 1977, I was one of very few female math majors and that continued when I got my M.S. in math in 1983. To me, math is more than just a tool. It is a way to describe the world as we know it and also a way to change it for the betterment of all. I'm going to continue to try!