This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Zoe Thomas: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, August 10th. I'm Zoe ...

I WAS raised in a home where arithmetic was important. Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s in suburban, car-oriented Detroit, my father always carried a slide rule and wore a white-shirt-pocket-protector.

Tina Fey wanted to play a math teacher in 'Mean Girls' to counteract cultural narratives that girls/women are bad at math. “Some of the material in Mean Girls was about this period in my life when I ...

The table above (click to enlarge) shows mean test scores and standard deviations for the SAT exam on the three different sections (reading, math and writing), broken down by gender (data available ...