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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The term math anxiety doesn’t call to mind a person who excels at the subject. But students who perform extremely well on math exams can suffer from such anxiety, which has a surprisingly powerful ...

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 ...