When the political scientist Andrew Hacker published The Math Myth and Other STEM Delusions earlier this year, he didn’t break the internet. But he certainly stirred up the math establishment in ...

Andrew Hacker is the author of The Math Myth and Other STEM Delusions, published this month by The New Press. Hacker, an 86-year-old professor emeritus of political science at Queens College, City ...

In the 1970s, Sheila Tobias noticed something peculiar going on in mathematics. In one of her early studies, the graduate of Radcliffe College, self-described "scholar activist," and author of 14 ...

Andrew Hacker really wants to sell his book The Math Myth. And given that the book is an error-filled rehash of old, discredited, simple-minded ideas, he’s going to need all the hype he can get. Pity ...

A new report by researchers at University of Wisconsin and University of California, Berkeley, aims to overturn the long-held belief that girls aren’t as good at math as boys. According to new data, ...

While gender differences in learning math have long been debated, new research debunks an old myth about the math abilities of boys and girls. Women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree ...