Since the 1800s, students have gone to school with the idea of ​​learning reading, writing, and arithmetic individually, but have recently been able to learn them simultaneously. How is this so? Combining changes in the classroom environment, teaching methods, technology, and assessment methods, teachers are beginning to find more and more ways to integrate literature and mathematics in the classroom. Before integrating literature into the math classroom, the traditional math lesson involved the teacher explaining math examples in class with students taking notes and regurgitating the same procedure on homework problems (Shults, 2008). Using this method, students never needed to read the textbook, as long as they paid attention in class. Additionally, some teachers make exams exactly like their practice/homework problems. If I have very little difficulty in my class and I get good grades, why am I encouraged to do more than what is required? To increase a student's interest in learning about the mathematics content being taught, teachers can create a classroom environment conducive to increased interest in learning more about the content. One method of doing this is through the use of “word walls” (Shults, 2008). A word wall is created by displaying vocabulary words on classroom walls and can be helpful in improving a student's knowledge and pronunciation of words. If a student does not read the textbook provided for a math class, these word walls may help to inadvertently introduce them to the content being learned. Another method of changing a classroom environment to encourage reading can be achieved by developing a classroom library (Shults,...... middle of paper ...... with their classmates A real story example might include saving for college tuition, paying off a house/car in full at a certain rental/mortgage rate, or calculating a life insurance premium rate based on a. given mortality table. For all of these examples, exponential functions, order of operations and/or synthesis could be taught. Technological developments have also created many other possibilities for integrating literature into the Internet mathematics classroom. SmartBoards and computers enable streaming of documents, articles, newspapers, videos, audios, and other multimedia sources to the classroom (Shults, 2008). /http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-1/math.html