What Math Skills Are Required to Study Microeconomics?

Find out how and why mathematics is used in microeconomics, its limitations, and the math skills that economics students need.
Smith College

Courses & Resources

At the Spinelli Center, we’re happy to meet you where you are in your mathematics journey. Designed to close gaps in experience—whether you never took a core class in high school, haven’t been in the ...
Inverse

Study Shows One Personality Trait Is Most Important for Math Skills

Are you bad at math, or do you just think you’re bad at math? Researchers reported on Monday that math skills only lead to certain benefits in life when they’re also paired with confidence in those ...
UPI

Study: Math-capable parents yield math-capable kids

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 1 (UPI) --If your dad or mom is good at math, chances are you're pretty good yourself. In a recent study, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found a parent's performance on ...
Education Week

Do Digital Games Improve Children’s Math Skills?

In Gregory Smith’s 5th grade class in Tampa, Fla., two girls are beating the majority of their class in an online math-strategy game. That is remarkable given the original disparity between the two ...
Los Angeles Times

Gender gap in STEM fields could be due to girls’ reading skills, not math ability

Why don’t more girls grow up to become scientists and engineers? It’s not that they’re bad at math, a new study argues. It’s that they’re even better at reading. This comparative advantage in reading ...