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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, ...

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"It's important for parents and teachers to know about these results." As more and more advocates and organizations work to dispel the myths that boys are better at math than girls or that women don't ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...