Girls had closed long-standing gender gaps in math test scores and were doing about as well as boys on standardized tests in the years leading up to the pandemic. But the gender gap in math has come ...

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. Girls closed the gender gap in math; then the pandemic struckJust before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys’ scores in math and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in The Conversation. Teachers report thinking that if girls do better in math than boys, it ...

Teachers report thinking that if girls do better in math than boys, it is probably because of their innate ability and effort. But they also report that when boys do well in math, it is more likely ...

Students work on a project during a LEGO Education science lesson at Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Irving, Texas. Credit: AP Photo/Ronaldo Bolaños Crowded around a ...

When Mattel Toys premiered the talking Barbie doll in 1992, the doll’s first words were, "Math class is tough." Although the toy makers may have thought they were just stating the obvious, parents and ...

While teenage girls generally score worse than boys on math tests, the gap disappears in Norway, Sweden, Iceland and other societies marked by gender equality in social roles, according to a study.

STEM gaps in achievement between boys and girls that took more than a decade to close were reopened in just four years, according to a new study from K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teachers hold different views on why girls are good at math than they do for boys. Maskot via Getty Images Teachers report ...

Just before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys' scores in math and finally closed the long-standing gender gap in a subject that is a gateway to the fields of science, technology, ...