Picture This---You Do Use Math In The Real World

Discussion item: students are forever asking "when are we ever going to use this in the real world". Instead of bringing in 30 different speakers from the real world to educate them to the reality that math is everywhere, students will educate themselves by videoing and interviewing someone in the real world (with their permission) that uses math on a daily basis.

Activity: students will check out flip cameras on a rotating basis and find a parent, family friend, neighbor, etc. for their interview/video assignment. Over the course of 4 weeks all students will complete this project as well as a personal reflection explaining whether their original assumptions about math in the real world have been changed or not. As a class we will choose an assortment of video/interviews and create a 'documentary' of sorts that could be put on the school's website or shown at an assembly.