It’s a sunny spring morning and the Grade 9 math students at Milton District High School, in the Halton District School Board, just west of Toronto, are seated in straight rows facing the blackboard.

Operators of Bakery Square in Pittsburgh’s East End unveiled plans this week for a six-story mixed-use building on Penn Avenue during a presentation to the Pittsburgh Planning Commission.

There is no doubt that the onset of a new decade has brought high expectations of academic progress for scholars, especially for researchers in mathematics education. The International Group for the ...