Math exam questions should not try too hard to appear "realistic" by adding everyday-life stories, because students would simply strip away the context and convert them into familiar formulas to solve ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

In the parking lot of Bowman Charter School, fresh skid marks stretched from the start of the school drop-off zone nearly to the end of it. A child's bicycle was placed under a car at the end of those ...