Every week in geometry class, more than two dozen Eureka High School students stow their backpacks and cellphones in their lockers and don hard hats and goggles.

Instead of sitting at desks, they slice wood with power saws, measure wood to be cut and hammer together the skeleton of a new tiny house — a fully habitable dwelling, just 26 feet long — all with little teacher help.

We’re not getting results that we’d like to get for our students, so we’re looking for additional opportunities that could make math relevant for students. This program does that. It adds relevancy to mathematics.

In less than two months, they have almost finished building the entire frame of a 14-by-26-foot house from the ground up.

Eureka High in suburban St. Louis County, Missouri, is one of more than 400 high schools nationwide and three in the St. Louis area that have adopted a “Geometry in Construction” class, a class developed by two Colorado teachers who wanted students to take math out of the textbook and into real life. Students in these classes use geometry to build their own tiny houses or other construction projects.

Read the full article on making math relevant by Kristen Taketa at The Hechinger Report