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Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, described space as the final frontier - the concluding step along a line of exploratory endeavours that started when people first embarked on journeys of discovery to learn more about the world around them. In the last 50 years we have become increasingly captivated and mystified by the possibilities of what exists beyond our planet. This heightened interest in all things space related presents teachers of mathematics with an opportunity to motivate and demonstrate to their students the relevance of mathematics in a real world interesting context.
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Johnson, P. (2011). Exploring the Final Frontier. In: Maasz, J., O’Donoghue, J. (eds) Real-World Problems for Secondary School Mathematics Students. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-543-7_9
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