- Children are very interested in adult things and what is of practical use. - They are much more likely to learn if something is embedded in the context of life. - We have seen this with our own children. Math makes a lot more sense when it is in the context of money or buying things from a shop. --- 'Children learn best when the things they learn are embedded in a context of real Life, are part of what George Dennison, in The Lives of Children, called "the continuum of experience." ' - John Holt in [[How Children Fail]]