#Stemed

The latest signals from education researchers are clear: the gender gap in math widened during the pandemic, and schools are racing to recover lost ground. In many classrooms, girls fell further behind boys in mathematics assessments as school closures, hybrid schedules, and remote learning disrupted routine practice with numbers and equations. Now, educators are scrambling to design catch-up strategies that not only lift everyone’s math skills but also address the gender dimension of the gap.