When students can see their math skills reflected in real-life examples and issues they care about, they can develop an innate desire to practice math.

The problem, the study suggests, is that there’s no bridge between math learned in school and math encountered in real-life situations. Despite great economic progress in the past 20 years, many ...

Math-adjacent skills are skills that are built by doing math but that aren’t necessarily considered exclusively mathematical in nature many of which, like “reason abstractly and quantitatively” and ...

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.

Have you ever asked a teacher, "When will I ever use this math equation in real-life?" A sheriff's investigator said he has an eye-opening way to answer. Skip to content.

Importing real-life examples into calculus is a good idea—one that can inspire students to engage with math, Bonk says. Bringing in basic programming skills into the coursework is also a good idea.

The new math program uses that data to provide examples of math in real life and teaches students lessons like scatter plots, frequency tables, and analyzing claims.