Can schools make math more interesting? Cal State Fullerton professor dives into the divide

Multiplication tables, polynomial equations and logarithms.
It’s a safe bet no one gets nostalgic about their early math education.
The practice of memorizing and manipulating numbers and symbols with little idea of their meaning has turned off many young people to math. And it keeps away most adults, who plead they are “no good” at it.
What if there were a better way?
Mark Ellis, Cal State Fullerton professor of secondary education, has been working on that way. The onetime mi