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Friends' school achievement influences high school girls' interest in math
02-07-2008 · EurekAlert!Though girls now take as many math courses as boys in high school, new research finds that one's friends have a stronger influence on girls' decisions to take higher level math classes than on boys. Both girls and boys who had close friends who made good grades took more higher-level math than other teens. However the findings suggest that we should examine the reasons why boys and girls take different paths to the same outcome.
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