Math study finds girls are just as good as boys

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 13:14 in Mathematics & Economics

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science....

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