Confidence doesn’t come naturally to everyone, and for young girls, external influences such as societal pressures and stereotypes can often stifle their potential. The good news is that confidence ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jessica Baron is a tech ethicist and a freelance writer and editor. Beyond the argument that education should be designed to ...

Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math ...

For those that rely on Excel to supplement their math skills, watch out. One of last week’s security updates for the spreadsheet application caused a math bug. The flawed calculations should be ...

The term math anxiety doesn't call to mind a person who excels at the subject. But students who perform extremely well on math exams can suffer from such anxiety, which has a surprisingly powerful ...

MANILA, Philippines — One look at Georgina Wilson and one can easily feel like life is so unfair! Not only is she such as beauty, with genes like aunt Miss Universe 1969 Gloria Diaz to back her up.

As we mentioned last month, Microsoft Excel 2007 was plagued by a fairly serious math flaw that could affect spreadsheet data. Today, the Excel team at Microsoft has released a patch which addresses ...

ATLANTA — Students gathered around a bright blue number board in Melissa Williams’ kindergarten class at the Westminster School, gazing at the bank of 100 blank squares, organized in rows and columns ...

Microsoft Excel 2007 has math problems. Over the weekend some folks in the Microsoft Excel Google Group reported that cell operations like =77.1*850 return erroneous results (in this case Excel ...