{"id":214877,"date":"2025-05-27T17:08:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/what-is-what-if-math-and-how-can-i-use-it-to-teach"},"modified":"2025-05-27T17:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:08:49","slug":"what-is-what-if-math-and-how-can-i-use-it-to-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/what-is-what-if-math-and-how-can-i-use-it-to-teach","title":{"rendered":"What Is What If Math And How Can I Use It to Teach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qVCc_wBqT7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What If Math uses a relatively new concept to enhance the way math is taught so that kids are given more relevant skills for today\u2019s digital world.<\/p>\n<p>The company says that the way math \u2014 and algebra specifically \u2014 is taught today is based on a concept developed by Leonardo of Pisa in 1202 as a way to help traders. This, it says, is now redundant thanks to all the digital tools that use spreadsheets to do that part of mathematical working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What If Math uses a relatively new concept to enhance the way math is taught so that kids are given more relevant skills for today\u2019s digital world. The company says that the way math \u2014 and algebra specifically \u2014 is taught today is based on a concept developed by Leonardo of Pisa in 1202 as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}