Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Local math teacher drops new rap video to help students master the subject He's back with another math rap. That Math Magician, also known as Jordan Orosco, a geometry teacher at Deer Valley High ...

ANTIOCH, Calif. (KRON) – Jordan Orosco, a math teacher at Deer Valley High School in Antioch, wrote a rap about math to help his students learn in a fun, alternative way. Orosco said he is not a ...

ANTIOCH, Calif. -- They call him "That Math Magician," because Deer Valley High School's Mr. Orosco can make students' math struggles disappear. Recently, he's pulled a new skill out of his hat: math ...

When you walk into Monique Jackson's 3rd-grade classroom at Stevens Park Elementary, you're surrounded by soft lighting, positive affirmations, and math equations. "Tell me why y'all chose 8," Jackson ...

Jordan Orosco, a math teacher at Deer Valley High School in Antioch, wrote a rap about math to help his students learn in a fun, alternative way. Orosco said he is not a rapper outside the classroom, ...

A Texas teacher who helped struggling math students find success by integrating music into the curriculum is now teaching this method to other teachers. We have a story now about a teacher who used to ...

The Sooper Swag Project has never had much use for convention. For its latest release, Badd Timing, the group—which features self-proclaimed weirdo Nnamdi Ogbonnaya—took the tenets of math-rock and ...

LOS ANGELES - The class of eighth-graders at a Los Angeles middle school tap their rulers and nod their heads to the rhythm of the rap video projected on a screen. It's not Snoop Dogg or Jay-Z. It's ...

ANTIOCH, California (KGO) — The push is on in Antioch to help low-income students get the tutoring they need, and the community is stepping up. “I really like this place, and it makes me happy that I ...