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A new study of schoolchildren in France suggests that boys are not innately better at math. Some aspect of schooling appears to drive the "gender gap." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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When the results came from the international study on reading and mathematics (PISA), it seemed to confirm the old stereotype that boys perform better than girls in math. In the US, girls performed ...

Classroom teaching may be driving a gender gap in math performance, and the effect starts from the moment children begin school, a new study finds. The study, published July 11 in the journal Nature, ...

(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 ...

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