“All throughout my years in school, I have found it to be that males seem to do better in math.  Any time that I needed help I would ask a guy because they would know what the teachers were talking about.  Most of my math teachers were male.  In science I don't really know. I had a 50% chance of getting either male or female for my classes.  Mostly I didn't really care who I got as long as the class was easy; I knew going into science I would have a hard time.  Male teachers seemed to know the content more when it came to science.”

“In my high school, I think in general the males did better in math and science, but it was close.  There were many females who were right up near the top or even equal to the males as far as grades go.”

“I think, maybe in math, girls put in more effort. I know with my friends, they really work at the math. The males and females both talked about what we were doing, what we understood, and what we get on tests! It seemed like we all had similar issues and studied the same concepts. So I would say equal.  Guys did better in science-and in physics. In biology, we were equal.”

“I don't know. I know a lot of girl friends who are lot better at understanding math than me! I know a lot of guys say it's easy. It is easier for them to understand. Males didn't really seem to have a problem with girls being good in science or math; my girlfriends were equally as good as them. In math most males were the ones who were in the top 2 or 3. But, they were very vocal and always talked to their guy friends in class and would tell them their grades and everybody could hear the grades. The women were quiet about it and I didn't really know how they were doing-but I knew the males were doing well! In my science honors classes there were more females taking the classes. Males by far. A lot of girls will say, ‘Well, I'm not good at math, so that's O.K., I'm good at other things.’ Everybody seems to accept the fact that if you're not good at math it's O.K. cuz math is so hard.  And I think also to just accept the fact that if you're a male, you do better.  But I wish I knew why people were just so laid back about letting the stereotype continue. Looking back at some of my classes I think the females who did well in math, did well overall in their subjects.  They were also doing well in English or history.  And the guys who did well in math and science, still probably were at the top of our class, but you could definitely tell, you know maybe they took on one or two more math classes or science classes.  And so it seemed like the guys who did well in math, focused on math.  Whereas now I don't remember any of my female friends wanting to major in math or science. Well, I think science probably was the guys in my class.  The top 10% or so in the class were mostly the guys. Math-I don't really remember, but I'd probably have to say the same, because if those same guys were in my math class, I'm sure they'd be at the top as well.  I think girls are more interested in. Personally, I'm more interested in the creative, writing, English classes as opposed to the math and sciences. For example in the science classes, when the teacher would have examples on the board, and she'd go over things, I think they were quicker to answer her questions and be able to solve the problems.  Now I'm not sure if that was the girls being shy, but as far as I could tell, they were able to understand a little bit better the problems that we were given and that sort of thing. From what I saw, like most of my friends were guys and they always did well in science.  They were always the ones I would go to and say, "I don't understand how I got the results of this lab, can you help me?"  Girls would not know and guys would always have an answer.  So, I think the guys understood the science better.  In my four years of high school I had three teachers, because I had a repeat of two of the teachers.  And so it could have just been their methods but no one really understood it.  The class average was a D. Well they taught it, but a lot of the people were slackers.  They didn't do their work.”