Posts Tagged ‘real life math’

February 23rd, 2009

by Sue in Math in Real Life, Start-up Culture

Math in Today’s Everyday Life

Every day now driving home and listening to the news, I try, like everyone else I imagine, to wrap my head around the kinds of numbers they’re throwing around. The scale of the numbers is incomprehensible. How meaningful is the difference between a billion and a trillion...

Tags: Math in Real Life, Math Learning, math skills, real learning games, real life math

September 19th, 2008

by Lou in Math in Real Life

Math is Defensive Too

As I read the economic headlines today and the news about AIG’s bailout, I can’t help think about how much math is being done right now all over Washington, Wall Street, and the world. Serious folks are attempting to calculate the impact of this financial melee across instruments, sectors, and countries. Some of the math is easy, more is fuzzy, and even more is mind-numbing in its complexity.

Tags: AIG bailout, Defensive math, elementary school math, learning math, math skills, real life math, Warren Buffett