Females are shite at Maths

[AutisticHedgehog]

According to a fucking hilarious Mumsnet cliche-meme on the FB feed.

FFS this is appalling. Why are Mumsnet of all places perpetuating the myth that girls can’t do maths.

I know plenty will say “lighten up, it’s harmless fun” but it’s not. It’s continual nonsense-shite that pervades and influences girls and their views that maths is a boys’ subject.

Maths is for everyone.

Shame on you MN.

[daisychain01]

One thing's for sure, the meme was not sponsored by Carol Vorderman

[AssassinatedBeauty]

Does anyone with a brain actually check any of the "content" before it gets posted?

[BoardingSchoolMater]

Yet another reason why I love single-sex schools...

[Sparklingbrook]

I am not sure a smiley face would have taken the sting out of being called a sulky , stupid and wrong drama queen TBF. But thanks.

[agnurse]

If people started telling me maths wasn't for women, I would say to them, "Is nursing for women?" (I'm sure I would get a resounding yes.) I would then ask, "Well, how do you think nurses determine how many pills or how many mL/cc's of liquid you're supposed to get?" That should shut them down quickly!

(On my mind as I teach nursing and the course I am teaching right now has a medication calculation exam component. We're doing the exam next week.)

[c75kp0r]

thanks for deleting - as someone who finds maths hard, I could be tempted to smile at the meme - but actually no - it is saying - "nah I can't be bothered, let dh do it for me" - fact is you can do maths - don't cop out - learn with your kids. It is so worth it to be confident with the basics.

[AnnieAnoniMouser]

FFS - they needed telling? Jen? Really?

[Tabathatwitchett]

Honestly MN I don't think that quite cuts it really. I'm really disappointed that anyone at MNHQ could ever have believed this acceptable.

[Semster]

I'd like to believe times are changing, but at our local 'top scoring in the state' school, DD was not challenged in maths the way that the brighter boys were, despite consistently getting better maths grades than they did in the national testing. I'm still fucked off about it.

[Fruitcorner123]

AutisticHedgehog not sure calling another woman a "drama queen" helps make your point about female stereotypes.

[AutisticHedgehog]

Sparkling - are you being sarcastic? I can't tell as I have Asperger's Syndrome and you have used a grin so I don't know if we're now actually having an argument, or if actually we both realise there wasn't any huge amount of malice and we can move on.

TBF I didn't call you a sulky, stupid, wrong drama queen all at the same time. But I can see collectively that it doesn't read well.

I will therefore clearly state that I do not think you are a sulky, stupid, wrong drama queen and I will not refer to you as such again.

[AutisticHedgehog]

Fruitcorner you are absolutely correct. I was being extremely flippant and I regret it now as it has derailed the thread.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

As an airy-fairy English Lit type I'd normally be 110% behind the 'it's all open to interpretation' side, but in this context it made me grin. sparkling, I couldn't see the video bit either.

But, yes, MN, that is really shite.

[AdoraBell]

Glad they’ve realised they got it wrong. Wonder if they would have realised their mistake if it wasn’t pointed out?

[neveradullmoment99]

My dd is amazing at maths. Unfortunately I am not. She came just two minutes ago for help. Looked at my face and said 'Okay, I will go and ask dad...' Then, I noticed this thread! Ooops!

[neveradullmoment99]

Generalisations like this aren't helpful though. It just struck me as a funny coincidence.

[Semster]

Ironically I'm just about to sign my son up for maths tutoring with a female tutor...

[DrCoconut]

@FermatsTheorem I saw a brilliant documentary about Fermat's last theorem. Was a few years back and even then it was online and archived. Could have been horizon or like that. I teach maths for engineers at levels 4 and 5.

[purits]

We've been on to Content, who are really sorry, they can see they got it wrong

Did you mean to say "they have had a proper bollocking, a first verbal warning and are being sent for retraining"?

[Fruitcorner123]

its the fact that people seem to think its fine if their intelligebt capable daughters aren't that great at Maths that annoys me. The number of parents over the years who say, "as long as she gets a C I don't mind..." but she's capable of an A* and no-one is encouraging her (apart from me of course )

[Madcats]

Just popping on here as DH and I have too many maths A level quals onwards between us. It just felt intuitive to me. DD's yr 4-6 maths has been plain weird, without proper grounding IMO.

My bigger issue is with the "go and ask.." it should be a "go to ask..."
You are going for a purpose.

[chocolateworshipper]

DH hasn't got Maths GCSE, whilst I've got an A level. DCs would never go and go and ask him for help!

[ShellyBoobs]

Christ. Look at how well girls do in maths compared to boys.

It’s DSs we need to worry about with fractions, not DDs.

[mrjoepike]

kudos to all the maths women of the world.
as a sidebar my mom was not university educated ,but was a seamstress and designer(made her own patterns).math is essential in sewing.she taught me my fractions when i was 7.also learned to measure lengths and other mathmatical things..used what she taught me when i became interested in creating fabric dyes(chemistry).and weaving fabric.
so praise to all the moms out there.

[Dobby1sAFreeElf]

I'm the proud owner of both a maths degree and a vagina and this sort of crap really winds me up.
I too possess both and this really pisses me off too.
That and constantly being asked why I didn't go on to teaching maths other than the fact I would be shit at it didn't feel that was the only career progression for me. Nor should I have had to.