The main focus of my blog has been the aspects of todays life that have been shaped and changed by Mathematics. How technologies have come about and everyday activities now incorporate numeracy and mathematics in many different ways. But, I have also realised that these everyday math uses, that most of us take for granted, … Continue reading What I’ve learnt…. to look forward we must look back →

After my last post about ensuring that the mathematics that are been taught are directly related to a students life, I have since realised that this relates directly to Ethnomathematics. Rosa & Orey (2011) describes ethnomathematics as the study of the cultural aspects of mathematics. It assists teachers to relate aspects of the Australian Curriculum … Continue reading Ethnomathematics →

As I've been looking into the application of mathematics in our lives I have also been looking into how this differs for people in different cultures and lifestyles. It is important to ensure that numeracy or mathematics that is taught in schools are relevant to a students life and the skills learnt are able to … Continue reading Socio-Cultural Contexts →

When I look at contemporary application of mathematics, there's no area where something has had a larger affect on peoples lives than technology. Through the improvement of technology devices such as phones, computers, televisions and even vehicles are vital areas of our lives. The original computer was designed because the US population has grown so … Continue reading Computers! →

It has been particularly hot lately, (reached 48.7 degrees Celsius in Ceduna on Wednesday) and it made me think about how mathematics goes into checking the weather, as well as how it is used to predict the weather. Weather predictions are a extremely complex system (Mathigon, 2019). Meteorologists use super computers to solve mathematical equations … Continue reading Checking the weather →

How many times a day do you use mathematics?  Every day we use maths to undertake tasks that many perceive to be mundane.  Lave (1997) discusses mathematics and culture in everyday life, with the focus on how the learning can transfer from schooling situations to the real world.  Throughout the book Lave gives examples of … Continue reading Everyday Mathematics →

Mathematics can be applied to many other areas of both the curriculum and real world scenarios. Throughout this blog I will be looking with the ways that Mathematics is being used in areas such as science, geography, and health. It is used anywhere that numbers or mathematical processes are utilized. Although the term contemporary can … Continue reading What does contemporary applications of Mathematics mean? →

Thanks for joining me! My name is Amber Drummond and I am looking into the contemporary applications of mathematics. I will be focusing on these within various classroom environments around australia as well as the world. I hope to gain an understanding of the different applications used as well as reasons for this differentation. Why … Continue reading Mathematics as a cultural construct →