IMMIGRATION, GENDER AND MATHEMATICS

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IMMIGRATION, GENDER AND MATHEMATICS
Universitat de Barcelona Dep. Didàctica de les
Ciències Esperimentals i la Matemàtica
Paula López Núria Rosich
Paula.lopez.serentill_at_gmail.com nuriarosich_at_ub.ed
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Introduction

• Needs of
• Building new assistance and strategies for the
  improvement in both integration and adaptation
• Adding multicultural facts in all fields as to
  become aware of it to train the new generations
  towards social equality.

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Wordings context influence of the arithmetic
problems

• Pupils reply better when the context is known and
  familiar to them.
• Previous knowledge and experience of the just
  arrived students are much further away than what
  we expect from local students. Contents are
  usually quite different from real world and so,
  interaction with the teachers is often different
  from that they may have with their closer adults.
• The operational rule in the class is much more
  different between local students and the just
  arrived ones. As an example, they would not dare
  to ask, not even for a word they have
  misunderstood.

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Results of the Ecuadorian students per gender
GENDER Punctuation 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Girls TOTAL 85 62 45 20 9 4      
  Percentage 37,8 27,6 20,0 8,9 4,0 1,8 0,0 0,0 0,0
Boys TOTAL 67 38 29 16 15 18 6 9 7
  Percentage 32,1 18,2 13,9 7,7 7,2 8,6 2,9 4,3 3,3
TOTAL TOTAL 152 100 74 36 24 22 6 9 7
Total   Percentage 35,0 23,0 17,1 8,3 5,5 5,1 1,4 2,1 1,6
GENDER Punctuation 9 10 11 12 Total 012
Girls TOTAL         225 85
  Percentage 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 100,0 85,3
Boys TOTAL 1 1 1 1 209 134
  Percentage 0,5 0,5 0,5 0,5 100,0 64,1
TOTAL TOTAL 1 1 1 1 434 326
Total   Percentage 0,2 0,2 0,2 0,2 100,0 75,1
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Mathematics utility
GENDER Punctuation Nothing work work life life Total
Girls TOTAL 1 16 11 21 49
  Percentage 2,04 32,65 22,45 42,86 100,00
Boys TOTAL 1 20 8 10 39
  Percentage 2,56 51,28 20,51 25,64 100,00
TOTAL TOTAL 2 36 19 31 88
Total   Percentage 2,27 40,91 21,59 35,23 100,00
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What do they want to be when they get older?
INGENIEER HEALTH CONTABLE OTHERS
Girls 9,80 19,61 23,53 47,06
Boys 20,51 10,26 7,69 61,54

• GIRLS REMARKS
• To have a good job in which to be respected
• Contable to help the family with the economical
  situation.
• To be able to manage by my selves
• To be a good daughter
• To be both a good mother and close friend, at the
  same time as being a dental surgeon.

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Conclusions

• We can not talk about the universality of the
  mathematical education and ignore the context
  aspects in which it takes place as well as the
  variety among people who teach and receive it.
• Get to understand the language is a must in order
  to be able to solve a problem, but there are many
  other difficulties for the immigrant students to
  get fully integrated in the national schools of
  the country of arrival, more specifically, in the
  mathematics classes.
• In most countries where immigrant pupils are,
  there are more differences between girls and
  boys education and their future expectative.

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