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.

Students would be better off if algebra teachers began their lessons with word problems, according to a recent study covered by my colleague Sarah Sparks, rather than waiting to present them until ...

Math isn't everyone's best skill — and even those who are good at it are questioning everything after trying this algebra problem. The question originally went viral in Japan, after a study discovered ...