For years Atlantic City High School math teacher Robert Cacioppo taught the traditional lesson on compound interest by using the the “Rule of 72,” which says money invested for 12 years at 6 percent ...

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A belated thank you for your service, Mr. Davis. You did one heck of a job. You took the most boring class in high school for many students — math — and made it come alive. You did it with comedy and ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...