Maths is boring and pointless. I can already count my change in the shop, what more do I need? I won’t even need maths in the real world! If you are a maths teacher, you may hear these phrases or something similar on a weekly basis. Getting students to see the relevance in mathematics is key to getting them interested in learning more about the subject. The problem is you can only get so far in achieving this stood at the front of a classroom lecturing about engineering, computers, etc. The answer? Drag them away from that classroom and in to the “real world” they are so adamant has nothing to do with maths and point it all out to them. [Read more…] about Paris as a Mathematical Classroom