The problem, the study suggests, is that there’s no bridge between math learned in school and math encountered in real-life ...

It wasn’t always this way. Many fields of mathematics germinated from the study of real world problems, before the underlying rules and concepts were identified. These rules and concepts were then ...

second and third transactions correctly despite using pen and paper and all the time they wanted,” the study notes. “In a subsequent study, we raised the complexity level of real-life math ...

Katie Steckles’s article about “Pythagoras in the wild” reminds me of an interesting experience of encountering maths when buying cake tins. I got two “catering-sized” square ones from a ...

It is expected that pupils, from 14 year-olds to those in sixth-forms and further education colleges, could use a new platform to assess and improve on their real-life mathematics skills.

Colin Hughes, the chief executive of AQA, has emphasised that the proposed online test is not about simplifying maths but ensuring it's applicable to real-life scenarios. He pointed out that ...