Clearly, I'm better at math.
Talent He Wants: I wish I was better at math.
To improve math and reading scores, he thinks schools should simply hire teachers who are better at math and English.
A blue ribbon panel of educators, put together by President Bush, has determined that other countries' kids are better at math because we try to teach our kids too much.
Tom Jacobs, for Miller-McCune magazine, spoke to researchers from the University of Delaware's School of Education who have been trying to decipher whether American mothers give their daughters different messages when it comes to math — because, as the researcher Alicia Chang told him: "By grade school, boys are very confident at math, and girls are saying boys are better at math.
At the 2016 New Yorker TechFest, on October 7th, Sallie Krawcheck listed and quickly debunked the myths often used to explain the financial industry's gender gap: that boys are better at math, that men are better at investing, that women are too risk-averse.
By Sarah Edwards October 18, 2016 At the 2016 New Yorker TechFest, on October 7th, Sallie Krawcheck listed — and quickly debunked — the myths often used to explain the financial industry's gender gap: that boys are better at math, that men are better at investing, that women are too risk-averse.
McKellar also marshals curlicues and panda bears to illustrate equations in a way that's bound to turn a generation of adolescents into math whizzes — which makes me wonder: if "The Wonder Years" had been narrated by an older McKellar, instead of the grown-up voice behind baby-faced Kevin Arnold, would my own generation have been better at math?
"Because daddy is better at math, wight?" he asked one day, when my daughter insisted on getting her dad to help with a problem involving subtraction.
