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 ...

The phrase “Girls in STEM” has become a common one, with the aim to promote and support girls as young as early elementary school to be exposed to the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and ...

LOS ANGELES - A research team at Carnegie Mellon University found new evidence that there exists no difference in brain function or math ability between genders. "We see that children's brains ...

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 innate ...

Despite the fact that boys and girls display equal competencies in mathematics (e.g. Lindberg, Hyde & Petersen, 2010), gender gaps in math attitudes, perceptions, and interests remain prominent.

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 ...

Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

I visited 20 high schools in the last 20 days. In every case, I saw kids suffering through the arcane symbol manipulation of Algebra 2, an obsolete requirement that keeps some youth out of meaningful ...

Despite the fact that boys and girls display equal competencies in mathematics (e.g. Lindberg, Hyde & Petersen, 2010), gender gaps in math attitudes, perceptions, and interests remain prominent.