The importance of Mathematics in daily life

THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE IS MATHEMATICS

WHY MATHEMATICS IS IMPORTANT IN LIFE

Mathematics is an exploratory science that seeks to understand every kind of pattern/patterns that occur in nature, patterns invented by the human mind, and even patterns created by other patterns.

MATHEMATICS IS A POWERFUL TOOLS

Mathematics are brain tools they are powerful aids to the human mind. The abilities to use both written language and mathematics are so useful to people that these are "basics" in our formal educational system. Mathematics is a powerful tool with many applications. Mathematical training can lead to many career opportunities, including business, finance, medicine, engineering, and basic sciences. The body of knowledge and practice known as mathematics is derived from the contributions of thinkers throughout the ages and across the globe. It gives us a way to understand patterns, to quantify relationships, and to predict the future. Math helps us understand the world and we use the world to understand mathematics.

BRAIN

The brain regions involved in higher math skills in high-performing children were associated with various cognitive tasks involving visual attention and decision-making.  While correlation may not imply causation, this study indicates that the same brain regions that help you do math are recruited in decision-making and attentional processes. Mathematics is not just an important subject but a very good exercise for the brain. It stimulates the brain into responding things quicker and making the mind sharp, playing with numbers is one of the basic skills of the intelligent minds

DAILY LIVES

From the time we get up in the morning to the time we sleep we use math. For example, when we get up we calculate the time we have left to get to school or work, we calculate the estimated time to travel. We use math to calculate the amount of money used to pay for the goods and services consumed.

IMPORTANT KEY SKILL 

Any job requires math skills; there is a calculation in every aspect of work. A research shows that employers generally employ candidates with math skills, as they believe that math helps in problem-solving and increases the ability to handle every problem with smartness. Therefore, to be able to acquire a good job position in the market, math skill is very important. We use mathematics when we guess how long it will take us to walk home. We use mathematics to estimate how much wood it will take to build a house. We use mathematics when we making decisions.

MATHEMATICS AS ABSTRACTION

All Mathematics is, properly speaking, an equation on a great scale for the other sciences. Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates.

Math is using the application of various agreed upon rules and patterns to create and/or solve numerical modeling of various situations - real world and theoretical. It is not rote memory of calculations - that is better called arithmetic.

We Use Math Everyday

Math is a part of our lives, whether we clean the house, make supper or mow the lawn. Wherever you go, whatever you do, you are using math daily without even realizing it. It just comes naturally.

Chatting on the cell phone

Chatting on the cell phone is the way of communicating for most people nowadays. It's easy, accessible and cost effective. Everyone has a cell phone and it requires a basic knowledge of skill and math. You need to know numbers and how they work, and with today's technology you can do basically everything on your cell phone, from talking and faxing to surfing the Internet.

In the kitchen

Baking and cooking requires some mathematical skill as well. Every ingredient has to be measured and sometimes you need to multiply or divide to get the exact amount you need. Whatever you do in the kitchen requires math. Even just using the stove is basic math skills in action.

Gardening

Even doing something as mundane as gardening requires a basic math skill. If you need to plant or sow new seeds or seedlings you need to make a row or count them out or even make holes. So even without thinking you are doing math. Measuring skills is always needed, and calculations of the essence when doing something new in the garden.

Arts

When doing any form of art you are using math. Whether you're a sculptor, a painter, a dancer or even just doing a collage for fun, you will need to be able to measure, count and apply basic math to it. Every form of art is co-dependant upon math skills.

Keeping a diary

Keeping a diary has become an essential part of our daily lives. We run from place to place and appointment to appointment. Making appointments and having a time schedule that works for you requires math. Without a diary we will crash and burn. Some people even have to make appointments to take some time out. Math is a much needed skill in today's life.

Planning an outing

Every outing you plan needs your math skill. Whether you go to the beach or the zoo is irrelevant. You will plan your way there and you will use your time wisely, math is your guide that will assist you and help you. When driving you need fuel, oil and water, without it your car will break down. All of these require math.

Banking

Can you imagine going to the bank and not having any idea what you need to do or how to manage your finances. This will cause a huge disaster in your life, and you will be bankrupt within hours.

Planning dinner parties

How about that inevitable dinner party or cocktail that you have to host. Planning is essential, how many guests are attending, what foods are you serving, the ambience of the place where you want to host it and so many other essentials all requiring multiplication, division and subtraction.

Decorating your home

Whether you are painting, doing the flooring or just acquiring new furniture, you need math to make your sums add up. Everything you do inside or outside of your home needs math skills. From accessories to a new swimming pool and putting in new lighting.

Statistics

Every basic thing we use in life consist of history. That means statistics. Taking into account the past and the future, and keeping record of what has been done. Without statistics we won't know what worked and what didn't. It helps us to find balance and structure.

Persian mathematician  

 Al-Khwarizmi

 (c. 780 – c. 850) 

The inventor of Algebra.

 GREAT MATHEMATICIANS 

Greek  Mathematician

 Pythagoras  

(c. 570 BC – c. 495 BC),

commonly credited with discovering the Pythagorean Theorem

 MATHEMATICIAN