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 ...

A quick glance around the lecture hall of many university-level math and science classes confirms the cliché: most of the faces staring back are male. That’s why women from the academic and corporate ...

Little girls may learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers. Despite gains in recent years, women still trail men in some areas of math achievement, and the question of why has ...

When Ayelet Freedman assigned her Grade 7 students to work on a math problem in groups last year, a 12-year-old girl said she was “too stupid” to work with her classmates. “She wasn’t looking for ...