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Students get to share their favorite family recipes and practice their problem-solving strategies in this engaging math project.

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Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with traditional assessments.

Federal data shows post-pandemic student math scores are still down. Maine education officials are responding with a new effort to show students that math has real-world relevance.