The Point

For Maths Teachers

Including "real-life" maths in teaching materials is often suggested and promoted, but in my experience much of what's included is heavily and obviously contrived and in many cases feels a little desperate and even less "real" than the abstracted concepts that we're teaching.
The point of this site is to collect together real real-life examples: actual maths happening out there in the world. It doesn't match up exactly with what anyone's syllabus says, but I feel that's an important thing to demonstrate as well: we're not Teaching Maths, we're helping people to collect some of the building blocks of a tool that's wonderfully useful in understanding how the world works. Putting those blocks together is the key to actually using it, and here lie a small (and hopefully growing) number of examples of people doing exactly that.

Maths, actually, is all around.

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For Teachers of Other Subjects

Do you have examples of the usage of mathematics in your subject, and in work and recreation related to it? I'd love to hear your examples! This could be an opportunity to showcase your subject to maths fans and to give fellow teachers of your subject and others a leg-up when it comes to bringing out the maths in their teaching and providing a cross-curricular, real-world experience for their students.

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For Maths Fans Who Aren't Teachers

Here's an opportunity to present the maths you are interested in, either professionally or recreationally, in front of students and teachers of mathematics and other subjects. Let's flood the "real-life maths" market with real real-life maths.

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For Everyone

Maths is everywhere. This site will help you to see it.