Math is not always learned from textbooks. Sometimes, the best lessons begin around a kitchen table. A simple family activity ...

Confidence doesn’t come naturally to everyone, and for young girls, external influences such as societal pressures and stereotypes can often stifle their potential. The good news is that confidence ...

Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math ...

As a youngster, Daniel Ansari was just an “OK” math student. Now a cognitive neuroscientist, he is a whiz at researching why some students excel at mathematics while others do not. Ansari, a Western ...

ATLANTA — Students gathered around a bright blue number board in Melissa Williams’ kindergarten class at the Westminster School, gazing at the bank of 100 blank squares, organized in rows and columns ...

MANILA, Philippines — One look at Georgina Wilson and one can easily feel like life is so unfair! Not only is she such as beauty, with genes like aunt Miss Universe 1969 Gloria Diaz to back her up.

Barbara Oakley flunked her way through high school math and science courses and didn’t start studying the subjects seriously until her mid-20s. Now, she is a professor of engineering at Oakland ...