Math for making a living—and making a difference High school should be an opportunity to figure out who you are, what you’re good at, and where you want to make a contribution.

The notion that boys are better than girls at math simply doesn’t add up, according to a study published today in the journal Science. An analysis of standardized test scores from more than 7.2 ...

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

Even in countries with high gender equality, sex differences in math and reading scores persisted in the 75 nations examined by a new study. Girls consistently scored higher in reading, while boys ...

Women perform differently on math tests depending on whether they believe math-related gender differences are determined by genetic or social differences, according to University of British ...

Brain scans of kids under 10 years old show no gender difference in how they perform math equations. Previous studies looked at standardized tests, which don’t differentiate between learned and ...

Does a 32 point sex difference on SAT math mean that women can't be scientists?

While math achievement levels were essentially the same between genders, the difference in attitude towards math was strikingly in favor of boys over girls.

By individual country, boys scored higher on the math test than girls in 52 countries (statistically significant differences in 38 of those countries), with the largest differences in favor of ...

This means removing the lost opportunities and disparities in math achievement. One often overlooked, but cost-effective, way to improve student outcomes is to adopt high-quality mathematics ...