The Importance of Orientation in Maths

I wonder if you could just illustrate it with an example or two that you've seen it in other subjects so we can kind of get this visualised. For a classic example would be something like I don't know say in the same English literature you're hearing about Jane Austen for the first time and who's Jane Austen? You know why are we reading her? Well you know you could say well the 19th century novels kind of started more or less in the 19th hour. It puts it in a context otherwise it's like who why and students are confused, he says. Yeah I've certainly seen this done well in maths.