15-10-13 Adding math talk to story time at home is a winning equation for children's math achievement, according to new research from the University of Chicago. The study from psychologists Sian Beilock and Susan Levine shows a marked increase in math achiev...

13-02-27 The idea that boys are better at math and in competitions has persisted for a long time, and now we know why: Nobody bothered to schedule the rematch. Most school math contests are one-shot events where girls underperform relative to their male clas...

12-11-15 Can we actually read words and phrases and solve multi-step mathematical problems without our having consciously been aware of them? A team in the Psychology Department at the Hebrew University has conducted a series of experiments that give a posit...

12-09-13 Many high-achieving students experience math anxiety at a young age -- a problem that can follow them throughout their lives, new research at the University of Chicago shows. In a study of first- and second-graders, Sian Beilock, professor in psycho...

12-02-15 Women with advanced degrees in math-intensive academic fields drop out of fast-track research careers primarily because they want children not because their performance is devalued or they are shor tchanged（欺骗 ） during interviewing and hiring, a...

12-02-09 The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx（流入，汇集） of Soviet mathematicians to U.S. institutions, and those scholars' differing areas of specialization have changed the way math is studied and taught in this country, according...

12-01-19 A University of Missouri researcher and his colleague have conducted a review that casts doubt on the accuracy of a popular theory that attempted to explain why there are more men than women in top levels of mathematic fields. The researchers found...

11-12-13 A major study of recent international data on school mathematics performance casts doubt on some common assumptions about gender and math achievement -- in particular, the idea that girls and women have less ability due to a difference in biology. W...

11-08-09 We accept that some people are born with a talent for music or art or athletics. But what about mathematics? Do some of us just arrive in the world with better math skills than others? It seems we do, at least according to the results of a study by...

10-03-29 The exceptionally simple theory of everything, proposed by a surfing physicist in 2007, does not hold water, says Emory University mathematician Skip Garibaldi. Garibaldi did the math to disprove（反驳） the theory, which involves a mysterious struc...