San Diego Union-Tribune

After years of progress, students’ math gender gap is back. Here’s what the data shows for San Diego County schools.

At Del Rio STEM Academy, a magnet school in Oceanside Unified School District, first-grade teacher Katherine Sebastian uses her hands as she talks through math problems. Her hands come together in a ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Weber Pierson’s math reform is smart, but it doesn’t go nearly far enough

After years of reports detailing how California’s public schools badly lagged those in poor Southern states in teaching kids how to read — especially Mississippi, the poorest state in the nation — the ...
The Conversation

Girls and boys solve math problems differently – with similar short‑term results but different long‑term outcomes

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 add, starting with ...