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This is a theme in math blogs at the moment; I suspect it may last a good while longer.
Such a shame that spectacular technology for connecting text in a math book to the “real” world is wasted with stupid examples. Perhaps a valid use of the text would be to ask students “What do you see wrong here?”? Thanks for sharing – I can use this in my preservice education classes on “ICTs and math education”.