{"id":229129,"date":"2026-01-16T01:28:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/boys-and-girls-tend-to-use-different-strategies-to-solve-math-problems-new-research-shows"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:28:41","slug":"boys-and-girls-tend-to-use-different-strategies-to-solve-math-problems-new-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/boys-and-girls-tend-to-use-different-strategies-to-solve-math-problems-new-research-shows","title":{"rendered":"Boys and girls tend to use different strategies to solve math problems, new research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boys-and-girls-tend-to-use-different-strategies-to-solve-math-problems-new-research-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New studies show girls prefer step-by-step math algorithms, while boys favor creative shortcuts. This difference in approach, rather than raw ability, may explain why men continue to outnumber women in advanced STEM fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New studies show girls prefer step-by-step math algorithms, while boys favor creative shortcuts. This difference in approach, rather than raw ability, may explain why men continue to outnumber women in advanced STEM fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}