Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

DESTREHAN, La. — During a recent group project in her eighth-grade engineering class, Charlotte Buccola took charge. Standing between the two boys on her team, she silently arranged sticky notes on a ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Growing up, Elizabeth Steeves had no qualms about math. It never occurred to her that boys were supposed to be better at math than girls. Her mother was an engineering technician and used math all the ...