Nearly every ordinary activity in life demands math skills, he said. A trip to the commissary, for example, requires familiarity with unit pricing, weights and measures in the produce department.

Parents and teachers have heard this question in many forums, “Will I use this math in “real” life?” This is a question that math teachers and parents alike hear annually from students who ...

And for math fanatic and BYU math education professor Doug Corey, Pi Day is the perfect day to celebrate the real-life application of math.