Real World Math

Math@Work offers upper grade teachers some great resources to use in the classroom.  The website offers webisodes and downloadable lesson plans and resources which will help yo ur students begin to understand the connection between math and their future careers!

I watched the webisode with Ty Pennington in New Orleans building a sustainable house.  The connections and the math were real and would be great stepping stones for our students as they begin to think about the future.  In the video, a math "expert" talks through solving the problems, but I think it would be worthwhile to stop the video and have the students see if they can work together to solve the problem before revealing the expert's solution.