Re: The newet technology being used to teach math

John Chamberlain (chamber@CORD.ORG)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:38:34 -0600

At 11:03 am 1/23/97 -0500, Sharon Smith wrote:
>Somehow I feel out in left field....For many of my students their world is so
>small they don't even have a bank account and many feel numbers have no
>place in their real world - even when they are faced with real world
situations.

Wow Sharon! I really felt a wave of empathy for you with your closing
sentence above. I wish I had a wonderful answer for you.

Maybe "sports" is one possibility, since most kids are (unfortunately IMHO)
really caught up in the sports competition thing. The world of sports is
filled with numbers and comparisons of numbers. There are many web sites
devoted to all the sports statistics from golf to baseball. When the
Olympics was going full steam, that would have been a good current source.
(BTW, the data is still out there.)

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