Math is used all the time. We use math in our personal lives to balance our checking accounts, to calculate or estimate our groceries bills, to set monthly budgets, just to name a few. A sales company may use math to budget expenses, make sales predictions, interpreting graphs and charts and analyzing data. A mortgage company uses math to calculate monthly payments for loans depending on the amount borrowed, the interest rate and the time period of the loan. Tire shops use the circumference and area of a tire and/or rim to determine if it will fix on a specific car.
Math is all around us. Math teachers should use this to our advantage. We should find information and problems that are relative to experiences of our students. By using relative information and problems, the students are more likely to retain information.
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Great examples. Not only is math used in jobs, but also in daily activities like balancing a checkbook. Everyone has to be able to do that.
relative to student experiences - taking into consideration their previous informal experiences in math as well as life skills relevant to math like those you mentioned.. it's a bit of both I guess
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