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.

NEW DELHI: Now, children of Class 1 and 2 will study Hindi from ‘Sarangi’, English from ‘Mridang’ and Maths from ‘Joyful Mathematics.’ These textbooks, released on Wednesday by Union Education ...