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The paper by Judith Jacobs was at the time of its first publication in 1994 embedded in the hot debate of still existing gender differences in mathematical achievements and attitudes towards mathematics. International comparative studies had pointed out, that gender differences still exist in mathematics achievement, generally favouring boys, that the gap increases with the age of the students, being highly significant at upper secondary level and that these differences had decreased considerably over the last centuries, without disappearing completely (see amongst others Feingold 1988) despite strong efforts made by the women’s movement. Facing these discouraging results the paper poses the question, whether we need totally different views on the theme gender and mathematics.
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Kaiser, G. (2010). Preface to Part XIV. In: Sriraman, B., English, L. (eds) Theories of Mathematics Education. Advances in Mathematics Education. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00742-2_40
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