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 ...

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The term math anxiety doesn’t call to mind a person who excels at the subject. But students who perform extremely well on math exams can suffer from such anxiety, which has a surprisingly powerful ...

WASHINGTON — American schoolchildren do better than people think in math and science, but Asian students still dominate in math and have gained ground in science, an international study found. Kids in ...

As another school year is getting well under way, educators are faced with starting the process all over again for preparing students for standardized testing. It's not something that can be put off ...

New research suggested that boys often outperform girls in mathematics, but this doesn't necessarily mean boys are inherently better at the subject. The study found that boys and girls start with ...

A new study finding that students perform better at math while sitting with good posture could have implications for other kinds of performance under pressure. If you've ever felt like a deer in the ...

A baby's sense of numbers at the age of 6 months predicts how good that child will be at math at the age of 3, new research finds. In the study, in which researchers looked at infants' "primitive ...

A recent study analyzing the impact of a shorter school week for high schools found that 11th-grade students participating in a four-day week performed worse on standardized math tests than students ...

There's new evidence that girls start out with the same math abilities as boys. A study of 104 children from ages 3 to 10 found similar patterns of brain activity in boys and girls as they engaged in ...