Three activities are included below in which a photograph is
presented and mathematical questions are posed. Having participated
in such activities, students can then be given the assignment
of using digital cameras to take their own pictures of objects or
situations in which they see mathematics, formulating their own
mathematics problems related to the photographs, providing solutions
to the problems, and then compiling all of the above as a
project. I have found that when students work in pairs on this
activity, they create more interesting and mathematically sophisticated
problems. The activity provides a window into the type of
mathematics that students see in their world and how the mathematics
that they are learning relates to their surroundings