Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
No, relating it to their life as it is right now is much better, you can't expect a 13-year old to think about his future that much. Why talk about how it is important later, when you can relate it to the real world they live in right now?
Technically, word problems are supposed to be relating the math to the real world and most of my fellow students will agree that word problems are the most challenging/frustrating.