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Science 24 June 2005:
Vol. 308. no. 5730, pp. 1871 - 1872
DOI: 10.1126/science.1112247
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MATHEMATICS:
Probing Performance Gaps

Debra Lewis

Gender Differences in Mathematics
An Integrative Psychological Approach
Ann M. Gallagher and James C. Kaufman, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005. 367 pp. $70, £40. ISBN 0-521-82605-5. Paper, $25.99, £16.99. ISBN 0-521-53344-9.
The contributors explore the question of why females consistently score lower than males on standardized tests of mathematics although such performance differences are not found in the classroom.
The reviewer is on leave from the Mathematics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, and is at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, 400 Lind Hall,207 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0436, USA. E-mail: lewis{at}ima.umn.edu

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