Flipped Homework

<aside> 🛫 What are we going to do today?

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In today’s class we are going to:

• discuss the stereotypes around girls’ academic abilities and look for solutions to gender imbalance in education
• work with ideas and topic-specific vocabulary from the video
• learn how to plan and write a good Problem & Solution / Cause & Effect essay
• brainstorm ideas for an essay on the topic of gender disparity in education and answer some Speaking pt. 3 questions

<aside> 🧨 Warm up

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1. Are you good or bad at Math? Why do you think that is? How has it affected your adult life?
2. Is it true that boys are generally better at Math than girls? Talk about your experience and observations.
3. What is the problem with labeling certain areas of knowledge as ‘feminine subjects’ and ‘masculine subjects’?

<aside> 🗣 Let’s discuss!

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Why Are Women Bad at Math?

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1. Are they? :) What really is different about boys’ and girls’ experience in Math classes at school?
2. What made this stereotyping pervasive?