Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. Two years ago, a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign turned conventional wisdom on its head with a study suggesting that, once ...

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Actuarial Science student Olivia Suarez is turning her love of numbers into a way to help people while strengthening the ...

Telling women they can't do well in math may turn out be a self-fulfilling statement. In tests in Canada, women who were told that men and women do math equally well did much better than those who ...

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An article in Friday's Chronicle written by a Jill Tucker makes the following assertions: "A new study ... shows what the five female university researchers already knew: Girls are just as good as ...

The College Board recently released detailed data on percentile ranks by gender for the 2011 SAT tests, and data for the 2011 SAT math test are presented in the table and chart above. 1. For all math ...

A bad relationship with math can start early, and anxiety or a lack of confidence around numbers can compound over time — transforming from a grade school phobia to a career hurdle. But some math ...

I remember the day in ninth grade algebra when I asked my math teacher the question most students ask: When would I ever use y=mx+b in my “real life?” He did not provide a compelling answer. Like many ...

Classroom teaching may be driving a gender gap in math performance, and the effect starts from the moment children begin school, a new study finds. The study, published July 11 in the journal Nature, ...