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Susan Bailey, the report's chief author, says differences persist in math because "girls are still not participating in equal proportion to boys in advanced-level courses." Specifically, 7.6% of boys choose calculus, compared with 4.7% of girls. As for science performance, Bailey says, "the gap may be getting wider." A fourth of high school boys take physics, but only 15% of girls...
Many concentrations, including biology, economics and the physical science require a minimum of one year of calculus for concentrators...
...calculus is relevant to all of the students taking the course," she says. "The new way of doing the course has been more applicable to other fields...
...Math 20 is designed mainly for people going into the social sciences, for economics concentrators, for people who would not have taken multivariable calculus otherwise," she says...
Hallett recently coauthored a book on the new calculus curriculum...