Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Real Life Situations Mrs. Johnson is teaching addition to her 2nd grade class. All of her students do well in class. But when they go to the lunch line to buy food items none of them use addition . What can she do to get her students to translate her lessons to real world situations? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Mrs. Johnson could collaborate with other grade-level teachers and the lunchroom ladies to create an alternative assessment environment. Over the course of the week, added money to lunch accounts and adding separate line items could become math problems as a way to pass a checkpoint in the lunch line. This allows individualized attention based on difficulty for HLL and LLL. Creating a reward (more recess) for the class with the highest accuracy would motivate students to practice the addition principle outside of the class and learn to apply to real world principles. Be careful to not exclude those with free-reduced lunch.