OK: hands up everyone who at some point during the last teaching year has heard the question above from a student in one of their classes?
Read the rest in Mathematics in School – March 2021. Vol.50 – No.2
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I wrote an article for the Mathematical Association‘s journal for teachers of Secondary Mathematics, Mathematics in School, titled “when am I ever going to need this?“