Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

The third grade students in Shannon Hendges’ class are learning about fractions. But for this particular math lesson, Hendges was observing the class. Two college students were teaching the lesson ...

Concerns about the use of technology in math class are nothing new. Calculators, the internet, and smartphones have each raised alarms that they would short-circuit students’ math learning. Who knows, ...