During Gayathri Ramkumar’s favorite lesson — a sort of mathematical guessing game — she’ll hear her students asking their partners things like, “Can you tell me the degree of the polynomial?” Not only ...

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Gayathri Ramkumar, a teacher at Aurora Central High School, aims to get students talking about math. Her lessons combine strategies from the U.S. and India.