More teens are dropping maths. Here are three reasons to stick with it
- Written by Rachel Wilson, Senior Lecturer - Research Methodology / Educational Assessment & Evaluation, University of Sydney
If more girls studied maths, we could see a narrowing of the gender wage gap.from shutterstock.comThe numbers of secondary school students who take higher-level maths and science are low in Australia. In 2012, there were 30,000 more Year 12 students than in 1992. But the numbers of students studying physics, chemistry and biology decreased by...
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