is that there’s no bridge between math learned in school and math encountered in real-life situations. Despite great economic ...

And for math fanatic and BYU math education professor Doug Corey, Pi Day is the perfect day to celebrate the real-life application of math. To answer the infamous question students love to ask ...

SOME OF US MAY HAVE EVEN ASKED WHEN WE WERE KIDS. THAT QUESTION WHEN WILL I EVER USE THESE COMPLEX MATH EQUATIONS IN REAL LIFE? LIKE WHY DO I NEED GEOMETRY AND ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY?

In middle and high school courses, it’s really difficult to connect math to the real world, says Lindsey Henderson, policy director of math for the nonprofit ExcelinEd. Students plug away at tough ...

"We want students to explore money—not just in a sense of adding and subtracting—but to understand how math applies in real life, like when shopping."The program is funded in part by the ...