Math education outcomes in the United States have been unequal for decades ... to inform decisions and navigate the demands of daily life—whether personal, professional or civic.

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 ...

“I am a huge proponent of connecting learning to real-life,” said Bronson Shanley, an educational technologist with C.C. Pinckney Elementary School. “Students often ask in math ...

Parents and teachers want a more engaging set of math curricula with up-to-date lessons that are relevant and applicable to the real world ... need to thrive in life and the one students ...

I wasn’t a student of color, but I grew up on a farm and attended a small, rural high school where there wasn’t much math and nobody ... transformed my life and set me on a path to becoming ...

Her latest, Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics ... She also examines how mathematical thinking intersects with life within and outside of the classroom, from the subtle ...