Reacción a "The gender gap in mathematics appears in the first year of primary school"

This study supports what earlier research has shown about something called ‘brilliance bias’, the idea that doing well in subjects like mathematics, physics and other sciences is about having natural talent or being innately brilliant. What is interesting is that younger children often believe their own gender or group is the smartest at these subjects, but as they get older and move through schooling this begins to change. They begin to associate success in mathematics and science subjects with certain groups, unfortunately, those groups often don’t include girls or students from marginalised communities. 

It would be beneficial to see further research that looks at how we can support teachers and students to see everyone as capable of doing mathematics.