Part I of: ANH Math Program for American Girls - Recognizing a Problem

At first I realized that American children are under performing in math skills as represented in the graph below:




This is especially an issue because obesity is also becoming a major issue in American society and being unattractive and not good at math?

Not great America, not great.

The problem continues for my gender as there is a gap between the math literacy skills of American boys and American girls:



Now, I would love to tell you more about what this means, but unfortunately, as an American Girl, I am having difficulty determining exactly what the y-axis in the second graph means.

So I thought to myself:

Something must be done about this!

And so I began the Annie North Hennessy Math Program for American Girls which will be fully explained in Part II of this post.