I was alluding to this kind of research, as well as my experiences, when we (@Abebab & @maria_ndrnh) were talking about how some (all?) subjects are gendered in UK but not e.g. where I'm from: "Girls Lead in Science Exam, but Not in the United States" https://nyti.ms/UoNta5 
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yeah i was told i'd be good at languages but not maths at highschool
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I simply don't believe that anyone is "bad at maths". I think maths is mostly atrociously badly taught.
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I agree
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I bet anything this will be the best thing you will have read today. It's one of few essays that made me change the way I think, back in 2010 or so when I first read it: A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf …
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Look forward to reading it. Thank you
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Enjoy!
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