Yvonne Bossons, a former maths teacher and engineer from Stoke-on-Trent, believes putting maths in a real world context is the key to unlocking some of its more challenging concepts.
Consider a real world context – actual criminal justice – where an officer needs reasonable suspicion to stop a person in the street and ask him or her a few questions.
Aah, the campaign trail, where politicians look at many things and have brief conversations with regular people carefully designed to provide exactly the right images for the evening news and allow them to say the things they have already said many times, but in a "real world" context.
But we live in a real world context of endemic male sexual violence in which about 90% of rapes go unreported and only 7% of the remaining 10% are convicted … raped women are not objects to be used to shake up a dull plot or add juice to a sanguine character".
The framework represents a novel approach for assessing distraction in a real world context.
A prototype version of the VR-tool has been tested in a real world context.
To investigate the impact of generic and diabetes-specific self-management programs offered in a real world context.
The optimal revascularization strategy for non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS) remains controversial, especially in a real world context.
In the past, eBay has released a transaction "heat map" following Thanksgiving, which shows online buyer-seller activity in a real world context.
In particular, the goals of the experience prototyping sessions were: (i) understanding users and their experiences with the app prototype in a real world context; (ii) understanding users' needs and users' point of view in a real user environment.
In May 2016, experience prototyping sessions were held in the ILOCALAPP institutions, with the aim of getting feedback and comments from participants on the functionalities, the interactions, and the flow of the application that we were developing, by means of a realistic simulation in a real world context, by exploiting the "Think aloud protocol" [23].
