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Boys learn slower than Girls what's the evidence?
By Charlotte Hughes
I predict that boys learn slower
than girls
ok to make things clear Chimps are one of the closet
animals to humans
A scientist named Elizabeth Lonsdorf investigated 14 young Chimps
for four years . She videoed them learning to
‘fish’ for termites By poking sticks and grass into termite mounds.
She watched and discovered
that young girl chimps learnt
quicker than males
My method
People have proven that boys are better at
interpreting maps and graphs
People have also proven that girls (usually)
learn to write quicker than boys so to test
I took three girls and three boys and said to
locate three things on one page of a map
book and I will do this three times for all
girls and all boys they all had to locate the
same things And for girls I will write a
bunch of letters on the bored and they will
both have to write them down I will repeat
this three times.
I conclude that boys are
better at interpreting
maps than girls and are
better with spatial
awareness
I wrote
Bguytopylus
Loputyopm
Qsadcjnjjgjlld
On the board (at separate times) and I tested who could
remember more of it in the quickest time and girls on
average were 4.9 seconds faster than the boys average. I
asked one of the girls afterwards why they thought they
were quicker and she said ‘I split it up into smaller words’ so
for e.g.: b-guy-top-y-lus
or
Lo-put-yo-pm
or even
Q-sad-cj-njj-gill-d
My conclusion from my
girls test
From my results I have discovered that
girls and boys have different ways of
thinking and girls have a more
efficient way of thinking
TRUE
MALES LEARN SLOWER THAN FEMALES – I
know this because males and females
think differently
Boys and girls learn different skills
because they are treated differently –
for e.g. a son might be aloud to go to
school but if the daughter isn’t
because they are treated differently the
boy learns better skills
Some girls are no good at catching
termites even though their mothers are
very good at it – we inherit some
characteristics not all of them
CAN’T TELL
The only chimps good at catching termites
are those who’s mothers treat them well- you
can’t tell because in some cases it could be
true in others the chimps might inherit genes
in which there good at catching termites.
FALSE
ALL FEMALE CHIMPS ARE EQUALLY
GOOD AT CATCHING TERMITES THERE IS
NO VARIATION FROM ONE INDIVIDUAL
TO ANOTHER – This is false because they
are all at different ages and have
different genes so for eg. A baby cant
walk like an adult so a baby chimp can’t
catch termites the same as its mum
Boys and girls inherit fine motor skills
differently – this is false because I
proved that environmental differences is
the cause of fine motor skills not what
they inherited
Every female chimp is better that hunting
than every male chimp- some male chimps
might inherit the mothers gene of being
able to catch termites well
All sisters in a chimp family are equally
good at catching termites - this is false
because all the chimps don’t inherit the
same genes as there sisters do
Thanks for
watching!
By Charlotte
Hughes