STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Instructor II Kim Walters is using her Math in Your World class to teach students that math is more than problems in a textbook––it’s a practical tool with everyday ...
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Our Schools Have a Problem: Textbook Math Doesn’t Help in Real Life — and Vice Versa
For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...
A study published in the journal Nature yesterday, Wednesday, February 5, 2025, titled Children’s Arithmetic Skills Do Not Transfer Between Applied and Academic Math, reveals that Indian teaching ...
‘Not a math person’: NC wants to make math classes more relevant to students entering the real world
Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...
It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...
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