Storytelling and mathematics don’t naturally go together. The best way to spark a discussion about a math topic in a classroom can be unpopular with many students: solving word problems. Word problems ...

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.

LEOMINSTER — There are no blackboards on the walls and no computers on the desks. The classroom is just several rows of tables, some big enough to fit a high school senior, others small enough to ...