How trailblazing teachers are improving STEM enrolments, results at Queensland schools

 Significantly fewer female students are still enrolling in higher-level mathematics and physics than males in Queensland schools, but three teachers are changing that by making the subjects relevant, supporting underachievers, and getting out of the classroom. 

Of the year 12 students enrolled in Specialist Mathematics — formerly Mathematics C — in 2020, just 35 per cent were female, down from 38 per cent in 2016.

The divide is less dramatic in Mathematical Methods — formerly Mathematics B — where on average 48 per cent of students are female in the past year 12 cohort.

Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-28/teachers-rally-queensland-female-students-to-do-math-physics/100566460




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