The bar chart illustrates how many male and female school students participated in mathematics classes of an advanced level in the USA in 1982, 1992 and 2002.
Overall
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it is clear that
the number of students of both sexes studying maths decreased significantly over 32 32-year Linking Words
period
, with the biggest drop seen in the first decade, particularly for Change to a plural noun
periods
boys
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However
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although
more girls attended advanced mathematics classes than Linking Words
boys
in each period, the difference was relatively small throughout.
In 1982, the number of Use synonyms
girl
students attending high-level math classes was the highest of both genders in any of the three years, standing at around 35 Correct your spelling
female
million
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However
, over the next 10 years, Linking Words
this
figure fell dramatically to slightly less than 25 Linking Words
million
and, by 2002, had almost halved to around 17 Use synonyms
million
.
The trend for Use synonyms
boys
followed the same downward pattern as the girls. Use synonyms
However
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while
there were only slightly fewer Linking Words
boys
enrolled in maths programmes than girls in 1982 (just over 30 Use synonyms
million
), Use synonyms
this
number plummeted to around 15 Linking Words
million
in 1992.In the final period, the decrease was a lot less dramatic, so the difference between the genders in 2002 was the same as it had been in 1982 (around 3 Use synonyms
million
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