More girls are in school today than ever before, but in mathematics, girls are increasingly represented among lower performers, while remaining underrepresented among top performers. Mathematics is ...
A version of this story was originally published by EdSource. Just before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys’ scores in math and finally closed the long-standing gender gap in a subject ...
In the years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic, the gender gap in maths achievement across US school districts had been narrowing steadily. Girls were not only catching up with boys but, in some ...
Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge.
A nonprofit started five years ago by a middle-schooler is making a difference by spurring passion among girls in math and science fields through its “math-first” approach. Now Mission:MathMinds is ...
Rochester Institute of Technology will hold a weeklong camp for eighth-grade girls this summer that yanks math out of textbooks and mashes it up with the real world in a fun way. Summer Math ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Despite persistent stereotypes, girls in the United States now perform just as well as boys on standardized tests in math, U.S. researchers said on Thursday, "There just aren't ...