Some time in elementary school, you quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain reorganizes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the philosophy and ethics of science and technology. It’s a prejudice that could seriously harm young girls, yet it ...

Taken very literally, not all students are created equal -- especially in their math learning skills, say researchers who have found that not fully understanding the "equal sign" in a math problem ...

(CNN) -- Several studies have already debunked the myth that boys are innately better at math than girls, but those are largely based on analysis of test scores. Now, researchers also have brain ...

MADISON, Wis., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Men and women have equal skills in math, something widely accepted among social scientists, but not by parents and teachers, U.S. researchers said. Chief author Janet ...

There are no gender differences in math ability, according to a study that examined the brain development of young boys and girls. The researchers, including those from Carnegie Mellon University in ...

American students score lower on international mathematics tests than students from countries that are poorer but with more equal distributions of family income, such as Finland, according to a UB ...

Feb. 14 -- FRIDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Many primates are capable of basic math and pre-verbal "number sense," but it's the use of language to explain abstractions that allows humans to take ...

Three years ago, Lawrence Summers speculated publicly that biological differences between the sexes were the primary reason for the low numbers of women at the highest levels in science and ...

Our respect for equality has a long and storied history in America. From the very beginnings of our nation, we declared the concept central to our principles with the bold-for-its-time proclamation ...