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Pinheiro, André O.; Alvarinhas, José Pedro; Silva, Manuela Ramos – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
It is generally agreed that making real-world connections in mathematics teaching increases students' motivation and interest and contributes to meaningful and permanent learning. In this paper we propose a simple and fast activity to find a rectangular hyperbola in real life and we show how to operate the data to retrieve a straight line. Since…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Motivation, Student Interests