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 version of this story was originally published by EdSource. Girls closed the gender gap in math; then the pandemic struckJust before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys’ scores in math and ...

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.

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 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 ...

It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic was a seismic event for the nation’s schoolchildren. But the disruption wasn’t evenly distributed. And scholars are only now beginning to understand the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Math teachers have to accommodate high school students' different approaches to problem-solving. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The ...