Teachers at New Tech High School in Coppell, Texas, are incorporating real-life scenarios into their math lessons to help students understand the relevance of their studies. Students were tasked with selecting a car, calculating costs, and even calling dealerships to negotiate prices, using the algebra they learned in class.
Teachers say making sure students see real-life examples of how they can use math, helps them buy into lesson plans"These are all quadratic equations and quadratic equations, they don't really make sense to anyone," said New Tech High School math teacher, Sumeen Asim.If you're not building rockets or satellite orbits, do you really need to know this stuff? Teachers at New Tech High in Coppell ISD say absolutely.
"It makes it more real and like, actually matter, and that's very important. That's a big, like, new tech thing I feel we do, like, actually important stuff and things that would bring real-life skills," said Lauren Lin, a student.North Texas mother accused of faking cancer, forcing unnecessary medical treatments on daughter
The boys wanted to buy a $750,000 sports car, saying why not dream big until they realized those big numbers made the algebra a little harder to figure out. "I think it's fun because I bring sort of like, and like, this is something that I can see myself doing the future as well because I'm definitely gonna be purchasing the car. So to get familiar with the car purchasing process and all the payments that it requires is pretty important. So I'm glad we're doing it with, like, in a fun way," one of the students shared.
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