Girls often believe themselves to be bad at math, in accordance with gender stereotyping, and often experience high levels of anxiety about the subject. That anxiety appears to be driven by social ...

My recent story on the Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics s, or TEDS-M, brings up an interesting issue, and one that didn’t get a lot of discussion in the study itself. The issue ...

Girls have long embraced the stereotype that they’re not supposed to be good at math. It seems they may be getting the idea from a surprising source -- their female elementary school teachers. First- ...