Comments on: Math is for girls http://head.elmwood.ca/2010/02/04/math-is-for-girls/ News from Cheryl Boughton, Head of Elmwood School Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:09:49 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Susanne http://head.elmwood.ca/2010/02/04/math-is-for-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-636 Susanne Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:09:49 +0000 http://head.elmwood.ca/?p=264#comment-636 I am glad that the benefits of a single sex environment are no less for our friends and colleagues up North! Thank you, Cheryl, for adding yet another voice from the field to this important topic. I am glad that the benefits of a single sex environment are no less for our friends and colleagues up North! Thank you, Cheryl, for adding yet another voice from the field to this important topic.

]]> By: Sally Reid http://head.elmwood.ca/2010/02/04/math-is-for-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-635 Sally Reid Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:26:50 +0000 http://head.elmwood.ca/?p=264#comment-635 Cheryl, Thanks for reading and glad you agree. I was particularly interested in your statistics about the percentage of women who pursue engineering and the salary ramifications if they do! This past fall, we had a fabulous panel of women engineers come to speak in assembly. Our girls could hear first-hand about career possibilities in design and computer science, many of which may never have occurred to them. For example, one young panelist designs high-tech tents and actually had some of them set up in our common area. If you want information about these speakers, you can contact Nancy Rich at nancy.rich@danahall.org. Good luck! Sally Reid Cheryl,

Thanks for reading and glad you agree. I was particularly interested in your statistics about the percentage of women who pursue engineering and the salary ramifications if they do! This past fall, we had a fabulous panel of women engineers come to speak in assembly. Our girls could hear first-hand about career possibilities in design and computer science, many of which may never have occurred to them. For example, one young panelist designs high-tech tents and actually had some of them set up in our common area. If you want information about these speakers, you can contact Nancy Rich at nancy.rich@danahall.org. Good luck!

Sally Reid

]]> By: Sally Reed http://head.elmwood.ca/2010/02/04/math-is-for-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-633 Sally Reed Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:59:46 +0000 http://head.elmwood.ca/?p=264#comment-633 Great to see this reference to AllGirls (my blog for NCGS) in your post. And glad you picked up on guestblogger Sally Reid's piece. I love hearing that 75 percent of your Grade 12 girls are taking calculus. When I was in high school -- OK it was a looong time ago -- I was an unenthusiastic student of mathematics. Then in college I took calculus, and the scales fell from my eyes. Math was fascinating! I felt the that fun stuff had been kept from me, and I was finally discovering it. Great to see this reference to AllGirls (my blog for NCGS) in your post. And glad you picked up on guestblogger Sally Reid’s piece. I love hearing that 75 percent of your Grade 12 girls are taking calculus. When I was in high school — OK it was a looong time ago — I was an unenthusiastic student of mathematics. Then in college I took calculus, and the scales fell from my eyes. Math was fascinating! I felt the that fun stuff had been kept from me, and I was finally discovering it.

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