Another journal article you may want to check out is the article by Elizabeth
Fennema and Julia Sherman entitled "Sex-related differences in mathematics
achievement, spatial visualization, and affective factors" published in American
Educational Research Journal, Winter 1977, V. 14(1), pp. 51-71. I believe it was
one of the groundbreaking articles in this field.
There is also a website that I used called Math Forum: Key Issues for Women in
Mathematics. This website has several links to other associations, projects,
interventions and reports that deal with your topic. Here's the address:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/social/math.women.html
Another excellent webpage is the Women in Mathematics at Univ. of MD at
College Park. http://www.math.umd.edu/~wim/
If you are interested, I would be more than happy to share my bibliography.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you are and I hope this helps!
Danielle Briggs
dbriggs@WestEd.org
Other books that you might want to check out are (I cannot recall whether =
either of these deal with 'space and shape' issues):
New Directions for Equity in Mathematics Education (1995). Edited by = Walter
Secada, Elizabeth Fennema, and Lisa Byrd Adajian. Cambridge = University Press
Breaking the Barriers: Helping Female and Minority Students Succeed in =
Mathematics and Science. By Beatriz Chu Clewell, Bernice Taylor Anderson, = and
Margaret E. Thorpe published in 1992, Jossey-Bass Education Series.
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