Did you see this today (11/12/08) in today's paper-- local section, "Math gets practical"-- Higher education: Students in a remedial class at UWS are using the skills they're learning to take on an erosion problem in an African nation. Hmmmm...what do you think? Sound familiar? Sounds like Orr's (1991) What is Education for? doesn't it? Orr speaks in that article of the social responsibility of knowledge when he states, "that knowledge carries with it the responsibility to see that is well used in the world (Orr, 1991). The article goes on to say, "The majority of students don't want to be there [in the class], but after....they seem to change their mind. The hope is for students to see how math is used in real life." (Hollingsworth, 2008)
Making learning meaningful with real application, real example, and real context.
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