New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 13
The six instructional shifts in this workshop definitely move math and science teachers' understanding of instruction. The workshop, 13th out of a series of 15, asks participants to examine sample tests and to look at how the six...
PBS
Pbs: Scale City: Scale Models in the Real World
This video explores scale models, including 1:12 dollhouse models, 1:24 railroad models, and 1:192 architectural models. It explains what the different ratios represent and asks students to consider how they can use measurement and...
PBS
Pbs: Scale City: One Dimensional Scaling in the Real World
In this video, life-size replicas help demonstrate one-dimensional scaling and the ratio relationship between two real-world quantities. The accompanying classroom activity helps students understand how ratios and proportions can help...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Real World Examples of Quadratic Equations
Provides examples of how quadratic equations can be used in real-world scenarios, and the different methods used to solve them.
Cengage Learning
Brooks/cole: Real World Mathematics
This page describes different types of applications in which different forms of Math can be used. Scroll down near the bottom of the page to read about how differential equations can be used in solving real world problems.
PBS
Pbs: Scale City: Similar Figures in the Real World
This video features the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory, home to the world's largest bat. Students see the role that measurement and engineering play in making bats to professional players' specifications and are asked to consider...
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Living Wages in Ca: Ratio and Rate in the Real World
In this KQED infographic, find out how much an adult in different-sized households needs to make to pay for basic monthly living expenses. In the accompanying classroom activity, students solve real-life problems involving rate and ratio...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Get the Math
On this site, students can explore real-world applications of algebra concepts in music, fashion, and video games. It provides comprehensive lesson plans, video clips, and interactive challenges for students.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Algebra I: Exponential Functions in the Real World: Lesson 3
This lesson will provide real world examples that involve graphing exponential functions. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Exponential Functions in the Real World."
PBS
Pbs: Scale City: Scaling Up Recipes and Circles in the Real World
In this video, students visit a small-town festival that features the world's largest stainless steel skillet. In addition to a question about scaling recipes, they also are asked how increasing or decreasing the radius of a circle...
PBS
Pbs: Scale City: Scaling Up Rectangles in the Real World
In this video, students explore Depression-era post office murals and modern outdoor murals to learn how artists use proportional reasoning and measurement to create large-scale paintings. The video ends with the question, "How do...
PBS
Pbs: Scale City: Proportional Relationships in the Real World
In this video, students visit the Kentucky Horse Park where they are introduced to the question How are speed, time, and distance interrelated? The accompanying activity builds on a demonstration from the video of the length of Man o'...
PBS
Pbs: Scale City: Inverse Proportions and Shadows in the Real World
In this video, students take a quick trip through the history of drive-in theaters and are then asked to consider the question, "What is the relationship between the size of an object's shadow and the object's distance from a light...
PBS
Pbs: Scale City: Proportions and Music in the Real World
In this video-through footage of the calliope aboard the Belle of Louisville, a church pipe organ, and various instruments at a recording studio-students are introduced to the mathematical concept that the length of a musical pipe or a...
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Patterning the Powers of 10
This interactive Learn Alberta math resource offers a hands-on exploration of positive and negative exponents. In particular, students will work on completing patterns of base 10 exponents in a variety of forms, then look at these in the...
BBC
Bbc World Service: Figure It Out: Math and the Money Market
The learning activity investigates how math can be used in the real world. The resource shows examples of how math can be used in the stock market.
BBC
Bbc World Service: Figure It Out: Travel and Traffic
The learning resource demonstrates how math can be used in the real world. The activity has examples of word problems related to travel and traffic.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life
Read about what math has to do with cooking, chances of winning a game, even decorating your home. Teachers may want to peruse this site for ideas about real world applications in their lesson planning.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Can You Survive in the Real World?
Living in the real world is expensive and sometimes hard for a new college graduate to adjust to. This instructional activity will allow students to see the importance and need of budgeting money. Students will have to make choices and...
Other
Math I Ly: Discrete Mathematics in the Real World
This resource provides short descriptions, with links to longer explanations, of examples of discrete mathematics as applied to our everyday lives and as used in important and interesting research and corporate applications.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Imaginary Numbers in Real World
This site from the University of Toronto contains revelant information regarding imaginary number appliances to the real world.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing Inequalities to Describe Real World Situations
In this exercise, students practice writing inequalities to describe real-world situations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Lesson Plan: Money, Money, Money
It all about money! Explore the concept of money in this real-world, unit plan. A collection of six lessons where students practice skills such as coin identification, mental math, menu math, making change, math operations with coins,...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Real World Applications of Trigonometry
Trigonometry is applied in two different real world situations. Students can calculate the solutions to each problem and comprehend how trigonometry is used in real life.