{"id":2758,"date":"2009-07-01T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T02:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2015-03-18T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T06:22:47","slug":"math-illuminated-real-life-math-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/math-illuminated-real-life-math-examples-2758","title":{"rendered":"Math Illuminated - real life math examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many readers write to me asking for examples of \"real life math\". Here's a resource that you may find useful: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learner.org\/courses\/mathilluminated\/\">Math Illuminated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are you interested in the connection between math and real life or maybe you&rsquo;re a teacher and looking for some real life math to share with your students? This resource may help.<\/p>\n<p>As their blurb says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em class=\"textem\">Mathematics Illuminated<\/em> is a thirteen-part series for adult learners and high school teachers. The series explores major themes in the field of mathematics, from humankind's earliest study of prime numbers, to the cutting-edge mathematics used to reveal the shape of the universe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The materials for each topic include videos, Flash interactives, a \"textbook\" with good explanations of the concepts, a facilitator guide and a bibliography for further reading. There's also an interactive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learner.org\/courses\/mathilluminated\/familytree\/\">Math Family Tree<\/a> which shows how various discoveries in math are related, and when they appeared (via a timeline).<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned <em class=\"textem\">Mathematics Illuminated<\/em> before in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-math-illuminated-1156\">Friday Math Movie \u2013 Math Illuminated<\/a> but I was concentrating on the videos at that time.<\/p>\n<p>So next time you are wondering how to convert a math lesson into a real life scenario, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learner.org\/courses\/mathilluminated\/\">Math Illuminated<\/a> may give you some starter ideas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math Illuminated is a useful resource for those wondering how math is used in real life; and for those of you who need to teach it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}