(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

Given all we know – and the far more we don’t know – about the brain, there’s no reason to assume that any gender should have a monopoly on mathematical ability. And yet, for many people, the idea ...

You’ve probably heard the common stereotype somewhere at some time that boys are better than girls at math and science. As a scientist (and a woman), every time I hear this kind of claim, it sounds ...

The results are in — and they’re not great. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. International data on math and science released earlier this month gave the globe its first chance to ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...