Without reaching out differently to boys and girls, he believes female teachers, who predominate in elementary school, will be more in tune with the way girls minds work, and the male teachers, who predominate in teaching math and science in high school, will be more in tune with the way boys minds work. The differences in how girls and boys learn start in the womb, he explains, and increase and accelerate through adolescence. Boys do better at learning mathematics on a blackboard. Girls tend to prefer concrete reasoning. Girls like learning math concepts with objects they can manipulate.
Boys tend to work silently.
Boys also enjoy jargon or coded language. They like symbolic texts, diagrams and graphs, and they get into an author s imagery patterns. Girls like to talk things out as they learn and put ideas in clear, everyday language. They prefer written texts and tend to be more interested in the emotional workings of literary characters. Boys seem to need movement to stimulate their brains and manage and relieve impulsive behavior.