Bonus Blog #2

Discuss how Science, Math, and Technology relate in the real world and in the classroom.

Science, math, and technology are constantly around us in the real world. Engineers need math and science to ensure that buildings and homes are able to stand. Meteorologist use science, math, and technology to predict the weather and determine how, when, and why certain weather events happen. An article I recently read said more than 8 million jobs will require a degree in science, math, engineering, or technology by 2018. Not only do many jobs use science, math, and technology daily, but we use them in our homes without realizing it. Technology makes our lives so much easier. We're able to boil water and monitor the temperature of it to make spaghetti, we count change every time we use money, and make can phone calls from anywhere through a cell phone or computer! The relationship between the three outside of the classroom is very obvious to see and can help us answer a question we often hear in the classroom, "When am I ever going to use this outside of school?"

In the classroom, it can be a challenge to show the relationship between the three, but it is up to the teacher to be confident and willing to integrate the three areas. Integration is a way of fixing this problem. Math often times is just strictly memorizing an algorithm and about finding the correct answer as opposed to how you determined the answer, which I believe helps students learn better. Science often requires math to solve equations and determine answers to problems. Students also need to learn how important and beneficial technology can be to their learning process. Teachers should allow students to conduct research in all content areas, not just math and science, and develop questions and answers through multiple kinds of technology to spark their interests. Many times I see these three subject areas taught separately in the classroom, but they really go hand-in-hand and if we continue to integrate our lessons it will benefit our students the most and help them out in the real world.