Real-World Problems for Secondary School Mathematics Students

1. Modelling in Probability and Statistics
Manfred Borovcnik, Ramesh Kapadia

2. Problems for the Secondary Mathematics Classrooms on the Topic of Future Energy Issues
Astrid Brinkmann, Klaus Brinkmann

3. Coding Theory
Tim Brophy

4. Travelling to Mars: A Very Long Journey
Jean Charpin

5. Modelling the Storage Capacity of 2d Pixel Mosaics
Simone Göttlich, Thorsten Sickenberger

6. Mathematics for Problems in the Everyday World
Günter Graumann

7. Political Polls and Surveys
Ailish Hannigan

8. Correlations Between Reality and Modelling
Herbert Henning, Benjamin John

9. Exploring the Final Frontier
Patrick Johnson

10. What are the Odds?
Patrick Johnson, John O’Donoghue

11. Models for Logistic Growth Processes (e.g. Fish population in a Pond, Number of Mobile Phones within a Given population)
Astrid Kubicek

12. Teaching Aspects of School Geometry Using the Popular Games Rugby and Snooker
Jim Leahy

13. Increasing Turnover? Streamlining working conditions? A possible way to optimize production processes as a Topic in Mathematics Lessons
Juergen Maasz

14. Mathematics and Eggs
Juergen Maasz, Hans-Stefan Siller

15. Digital Images
Thomas Schiller

16. Modelling and Technology
Hans-Stefan Siller

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