But presented in context, math has a number of real-world applications. But the problems themselves have value. Even at the primary school level, you can play Sudoku games and teach the logical ...

“It’s not all of what the power of math is,” she said. “I think that’s where we have failed to portray to students the value around modeling problems, modeling phenomena in the ...

and that they see the value and the payoff in it. It does pay off for what is assessed [in standardized math tests], but it’s not directly assessed, and so that makes teachers nervous.