The problem, the study suggests, is that there’s no bridge between math learned in school and math encountered in real-life ...

In middle and high school courses, it’s really difficult to connect math to the real world, says Lindsey Henderson ... That includes how job skills play into math paths for students. For example, ...

Her latest, Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to ... 12 is the product of two copies of 2 and one copy of 3, for example, and cannot be broken down into any different set of primes.

To Garfinkel, the change represents a successful example of reforming the math curriculum ... But it does underline the need to bring math instruction into the 21st century. Importing real-life ...