BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lindsey Yundt’s algebra 1 class at Boise’s South Junior High doesn’t bear much resemblance to what it might have looked like a few years ago.

The days when students copied a couple of math problems off the board and then did 20 more like them in a “drill-and-kill exercise” are gone. Now there are real-world math problems that demand more than a simple right or wrong answer.