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In a math class, the teacher always calls on the males, being sure to give them more wait time than the females. When male students get the answer correct, they receive specific, targeted praise, while the girls receive generic, one-word feedback. All of the posters in the room reference men who have done great things with mathematics, while there are no references to females who use math in society. By the end of the year, both the males and the females believe that "math is for boys and not for girls." Such a lesson would be part of the ___________.

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Hidden curriculum.

Step-by-step explanation:

Curriculum

This is commonly refered to as lessons and academic knowledge or content taught in a school or specific course or program.

Hidden is a term used to refered to this that are unseen.

The Hidden Curriculum

This is simply refered to as a set of the unofficial, usually not written and often unthought lessons, values, and different views/opinions that students learn in school. They are usually not openly taught in lessons or examined in tests. As a type of socialisation, it entailspersuading people, either consciously or subconsciously, to think anddo things in different ways. It included the unwritten rules that influences school behaviour.

Feminists view on hidden curriculum is that it is a great influence or main source of gender socialisation in schools.

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