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Taken very literally, not all students are created equal -- especially in their math learning skills, say researchers who have found that not fully understanding the "equal sign" in a math problem ...

The University Association for Women in Mathematics is hosting Sonia Math Day, a program designed for girls in the eighth to 12th grade, on Nov. 10. The theme for the fall Sonia Math Day is Walks ...

MADISON, Wis., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Men and women have equal skills in math, something widely accepted among social scientists, but not by parents and teachers, U.S. researchers said. Chief author Janet ...

A growing number of mathematicians are skeptical that the equal sign, traditionally used to show exact relationships between sets of objects, holds up to new mathematical models, WIRED reports. To ...

Our respect for equality has a long and storied history in America. From the very beginnings of our nation, we declared the concept central to our principles with the bold-for-its-time proclamation ...

There is a widespread, not always tacit assumption that a biological gender divide in aptitude for mathematics may underpin why women don’t prosper as well as their male counterparts in science, ...

The Math Buzz project alerts adults who are close to children to recognise mathematics on the grassroots level. The mathematical skills of Finnish children and adolescents are in decline. One reason ...