Volume 1, Issue 4 – Making Math Relevant
Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing the concept of making math relevant to students.
It’s a well-known conundrum that students often don’t find math relevant to their lives, yet need to do so in order to engage with the material. In an article published by the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, Curtin University of Technology professor Len Sparrow summarizes research on making math relevant and meaningful to elementary students.
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