While this may ring up visions of Guardians of the Galaxy and/or Marvel Comics, this actually relates to teachers as they have been meticulously creative collecting whatever content they can muster to make sound lessons for their students. One of the things I have thought back to, was when Numb3rs was popular on CBS. So I did a little digging. I found a few links like http://mathstrategies.wordpress.com/numb3rs-activities and http://pi.math.cortnell.edu/~numb3rs/lipa/Episodes . It helped me reminisce why students are attracted to these dramas more than they are ACTUAL MATH CLASS! With the group that I have this year who appears to have NO academic interest in math, let me make a similar suggestion from a mistake I already went through; Don't show them Flatland: A tale of many dimensions. I should have done a a Lexile score before presenting it. It failed the first week. Miserably. The old English used, (keep in mind this was 1884 during the Victorian Era), was just too
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