Thursday 7 March 2013




            WHY DO WE EVEN LEARN MATHEMATICS?


Maths is very important in our daily life.In every day life, we use maths for such simple tasks as telling the time from a clock or counting our change after making a purchase. We also use maths for more difficult tasks, such as, making up a household budget.Everyday life would be quite difficult if you had no knowledge of maths whatsoever. On a basic level you need to able to count your money, multiply, subtract and divide. You need a knowledge of maths if you want to do some DIY at home, to work out how much material to buy for a job. More advanced mathematics is essential if you take up any kind of technical career such as engineering. Working on algebra and geometry also helps with reasoning skills and assists later in life with technical problem solving. Living your day to day life without maths would be extremely difficult. Even if you were a nomad in the desert you would want to count your goats wouldn't.
Here are some examples:

  • When we go shopping, we use math to count our money, see if we can afford something, and see how much change we'll get.
  •  At sports games, we use math to figure out how many more points to win and how many points we're ahead. 
  • In the kitchen,we need maths to measure how much ingredients we need. Sometimes we need to double the recipe or half the recipe. That requires multiplication and division. When we make food for other people, we need to know how many people there are to make enough for everyone. We also use math to set the table.
  • Planting requires math too. We need to know how many seeds I need. Also we need to know how many holes to dig. We use math in many ways! It is very important!
But the most important use of mathematics in our technologies can not be contradicted. Our most of the system base on computers and all the computer technology are stands on mathematical rules. All computers work on binary code, code of zero and one.
So we cannot deny the importance of mathematics in real life.




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