Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...

Math teachers have to accommodate high school students' different approaches to problem-solving. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Among high school students and adults, ...

(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 ...