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 ...

Photo by Daniel Mollenkamp for EdSurge. PHILADELPHIA — Elle Oliver knows anger. Multiplying by 12 used to make the rising sixth grader fume. Now she’s tackling integers with relative calm. Still, ...

A 2023 doctoral study from Walden University found that girls placed in single-gender math classrooms, supposedly designed to "support" them, actually scored lower on both the ERB and the PSAT math ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Despite persistent stereotypes, girls in the United States now perform just as well as boys on standardized tests in math, U.S. researchers said on Thursday, "There just aren't ...

A major international test has revealed a concerning gender gap in math among Australian school students. In the 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), Australia's boys ...

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 ...

Forty-three girls entering eighth grade will spend this week at Rochester Institute of Technology exploring mathematics as the language of science and solving problems through mathematical modeling.

Just before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys’ scores in math and finally closed the long-standing gender gap in a subject that is a gateway to the fields of science, technology, ...

Recent data shows boys in years 5 and 9 in England have scored significantly higher than girls in math and science compared with 2019, report UCL researchers who analyzed the latest Trends in ...