Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

These scenarios are glimpses into what the AI-powered math class of the future might look like—one that new data show math teachers are not being prepared for.

A new survey of nearly 90,000 high school students demonstrates American teenagers’ deep ambivalence about how math is taught in schools.