(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sarah Lubienski, Indiana University; Colleen Ganley, Florida State University, and ...

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...