A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Economics is a field that exists between scientific objectivity and subjective interpretation. Suppose a policymaker is trying to decide whether a proposed new tax is a good idea. One economist might ...

An article in Friday's Chronicle written by a Jill Tucker makes the following assertions: "A new study ... shows what the five female university researchers already knew: Girls are just as good as ...

Telling women they can’t do well in math may turn out be a self-fulfilling statement. In tests in Canada, women who were told that men and women do math equally well did much better than those who ...

Sitting in the front row of a "General Chemistry" class at McCosh last fall, tracking questions and taking notes as earnestly as any undergraduate, Ana Mostafavi was a reassuring fixture in one of the ...