Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I discuss how investing and markets are changing. Investments driven by bad math are like houses built on sand. At first, they can ...

Math education leaders have long said children should not be labeled "bad at math," even if they struggle mightily with the subject. Such a classification is racist, sexist, classist, inaccurate, ...

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This post is by Donna Le Fever, who teaches sixth grade math and science at High Tech Middle Media Arts in San Diego. I took a course on reading and writing across the curriculum, and the teacher ...

Women make up more than half of the labor force in the United States and earn almost 60 percent of advanced degrees, yet they bring home less pay and fill fewer seats in the C-suite than men, ...

In recent years, research on the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields has proliferated. (STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.) STEM jobs tend to be higher-paying ...

A few years ago, the only thing on my mind was credit card debt. "Want to go out to lunch?" a friend would ask. Can't, I'd think, I have credit card debt. How about a ...

Unconfident children can boost their performance in math tests simply by saying nice things to themselves, a study suggests. A total of 212 fourth to sixth graders, aged between 9 to 13 years-old, ...

Getting something wrong is never a good feeling. And for people with math anxiety, one wrong answer could spiral into a lifetime of avoided opportunities and limited choices. “It is the vicious cycle ...