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.

Create a table consisting of data or use an existing table consisting of data. Now highlight the table and then go to the Insert tab and click the Object button. An Object dialog box will open. Scroll ...

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During a course in math teaching methods I took in ed school, I watched a video of a teacher leading his students to do a variety of tasks, ostensibly to teach them about factoring trinomials, such as ...