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Gainsburg, Julie – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2008
The mathematics-education community stresses the importance of real-world connections in teaching. The extant literature suggests that in actual classrooms this practice is infrequent and cursory, but few studies have specifically examined whether, how, and why teachers connect mathematics to the real world. In this study, I surveyed 62 secondary…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Relevance (Education), Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods