Students can be architects and use math skills to create effective bridges, and they can be poets to tell the stories of homeless youth in the community. (andrewkmiller.com)
The latter practice can be regarded positively as «contextualization» or negatively as «syncretism» (a common Protestant accusation against the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God); in any case, the Universal Church's success has a lot to do with its capacity to build effective bridges linking it both to what is most traditional and religious and to what is most modern and secular in Brazilian culture. (religion-online.org)
Then they graph and analyze the data, finding the range and mean, to make conjectures and draw conclusions about effective bridge design and construction. (mathlearningcenter.org)