Justin said the students tested their math skills by answering various questions like determining how many jumps a frog has to complete to cover a distance of 13 feet. "It is so quiet in here," he ...

2001-2008: Coordinate Math to the Rescue Imagine a sheet of graph paper. Now imagine that a corn stalk sits in every square. You now have a mathematical representation of a cornfield.

In his blog, McCallum explains that strategies like making ten are a step toward memorizing math facts, which the standards also require. Plus, the methods offer transferrable skills.

“Math has trained me to quickly recognize patterns,” says Miller. “That comes in handy for playing music, where patterns keep repeating themselves in subtle, not very obvious, ways.

A poster advertising an event for Brigham Young University’s Women in Math club has sparked mocking irritation online for its seemingly inconsistent visual featuring four men.