There has been a long-standing, and often very emotional debate about whether there are any gender differences in mathematical ability. If you have any doubts about how emotional and irrational the ...

High school boys have consistently outperformed their female counterparts on the Math SAT test for the last 50 years going back to the 1960s as the top chart above shows. Further, for perfect scores ...

Compared to other countries, American students test poorly when it comes to math aptitude. Over the last sixty years, the proportion of math majors has declined by half. A professor at Duke University ...

There may be a surprisingly simple way to close the long-standing gender gap on standardized math tests: Add a line at the beginning of the exam stating that men and women do equally well on the test.

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, ...

A group of US researchers have come up with strong evidence that suggest humans may be innately wired, from infancy, to recognize and work with numbers. Numbers might not be as abstract a concept as ...