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"Where are we ever going to use this?" Every high school math student has asked this question. Often teachers themselves aren't sure how to respond. One answer is that higher mathematics learned in high school will be essential to learning yet more at the college level. A more satisfactory answer calls for an awareness of how math is applied in many specific areas. Written primarily for teachers, this book presents hundreds of practical applications for mathematics--from baseball statistics to the theory of relativity--that can be understood by anyone with a knowledge of high school algebra, geometry and trigonometry.
About the Author
I taught high school mathematics for over twenty years in Oregon. I then went into administration, the last four years of which I spent as an administrator in a k-12 school.
After I retired, we moved to Kentucky which allowed us to be closer to our son who was attending college in Tennessee, and allowed me to serve as a math teacher/administrator in a private school in the Appalachians.
While I was teaching, I always thought there should be a resource for teachers to find appropriate high school math applications for students; one that would answer the question all math students seem to have: "Where are we ever going to use this? "
I've spent the last couple of years writing that book - Math for Real Life: Teaching Practical Uses for Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry.
