The other day, during lunch I was on the school’s walking path with a math teacher. A student asked them when was the last time they used the math they learned in high school. It’s a fair question. This person, an accredited math teacher with just a hint of irony in their voice, said, “The last time I used this math in the real world was in high school.”I’ve had some students posit the same type of question to me when we start reading Shakespeare. “Why are we reading Shakespeare? Nobody talks like this anymore.” That too is a fair question, and here is what I tell my momentarily frustrated ELA friends, an answer which also assists in the math conundrum my co-worker had.
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