Real-world contexts are critical for engaging learners and providing the purpose for learning about how to use and apply maths in the real world. Starting with the real-world in teaching maths and numeracy provides numerous benefits in enhancing our learner’s successful learning and understanding of numeracy and maths skills and can help overcome our learner’s anxiety to the world of mathematics. This session will look at why and how this works in practice, both in your planning and in your teaching. It will use examples such as shopping, food and sport to illustrate how this can work.