WASHINGTON — Little girls may learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers. Despite gains in recent years, women still trail men in some areas of math achievement, and the ...
Female elementary school teachers can pass on their anxiety and stereotypes about math to female students, and girls who adopt this outlook perform worse at math, research at the University of Chicago ...
Images via Miss Kacz and Simone Joyner/Getty Images for ABA A math teacher has gone viral on TikTok for creating her own version of Drake’s “Nokia,” which is all about coming back to school. The ...
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Teachers report thinking that if girls do better in math than boys, it is probably because of their innate ability and effort. But they also report that when boys do well in math, it is more likely ...
Female elementary school teachers’ comfort with mathematics has an outsize effect on the girls they teach, according to new research. Girls taught by a female teacher got a learning boost if that ...
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