Is Math is Used In Our Daily Life?
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Everything you see around you is based on mathematics. The very computer you used to post this message is based on math, the internet is math, and the chair you sit on is designed using math the clothes you wear are based on math. The building that you are right now is designed using math. In short technology and innovation are developed by people that know their math very well.
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We use math while driving (speed, distance), cooking, making purchases, regulating temerature in our home, putting gas in our cars, wow this list is endless.\n\nEver see a house that looked wrong?  Most likely there was something mathematically out of balance with the placement of the windows & doors on the front of it.\n\nGood luck with your project!
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It uses the logical part of your brain, as opposed to the creative part. Of course, in the developed world it is called Maths.
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The practical applications of math are endless. The basic math like algebra and geometry is vital knowledge for being able to solve everyday problems. The higher math is very useful in professions. If you're any kind of scientist, you'll need to know everything up until at least differential equations, and definitely further for chemistry and physics. Statistics is a real, very common application of mathematics that shows up everywhere- being able to take a set of real data that probably isn't perfect and still managing to analyze it to find patterns. Calculus also shows up frequently in businesses when they are attempting to optimize conditions in order to maximize profit or decrease cost.\n\nAside from applications, math fosters more analytical, rational thinking. This is why Plato taught geometry and arithmetic to his students before subjecting them to philosophy: so that he could develop their critical thinking skills. Just being able to solve complex problems is a wonderful skill that can be developed through mathematics. The mathematical study of logic is also quite practical.\n\nAnd surely you don't think that all of the world's technology just popped out of the air without somebody doing a lot of math along the way?
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Math is used all the time in the engineering sciences.  Many physical phenomena, including fluid flow, heat transport, and diffusion can be described by appropriate partial differential equations.  In order to solve these equations and make predictions, you need to be good at calculus.\n\nIf you limit yourself to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, you would be stuck with linear models for everything.  This means that any more complicated relationship between two variables could not be modeled continuously, and you would never be able to extrapolate with any confidence.  Thus development of new technology would be strictly trial and error (and you wouldn't even have a good trial and error system without statistics).\n\nHang in there!  Get through that math.  You don't have to like it, but you will inevitably appreciate the developments that math has enabled.
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Math is the language of Science
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Mathematics can be defined as the logically rigorous study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. Another view, held by many mathematicians, is that mathematics is the body of knowledge justified by deductive reasoning, starting from axioms and definitions.\n\nMathematics is used throughout the world in fields such as science, engineering, surveying, medicine, and economics. These fields both inspire and make use of new discoveries in mathematics. New mathematics is also created for its own sake, without any particular application in view.\n\nThe word "mathematics" comes from the Greek μάθημα (máthēma) meaning science, knowledge, or learning, and μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós), meaning fond of learning. It is often abbreviated math in North American English and maths in Commonwealth English .\nHistory\n\n    Main article: History of mathematics\n\nThe evolution of mathematics might be seen to be an ever-increasing series of abstractions, or alternatively an expansion of subject matter. The first abstraction was probably that of numbers. The realization that two apples and two oranges have something in common, namely that they fill the hands of exactly one person, was a breakthrough in human thought. In addition to recognizing how to count concrete objects, prehistoric peoples also recognized how to count abstract quantities, like time -- days, seasons, years. Arithmetic (e.g., addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), naturally followed. Monolithic monuments testify to a knowledge of geometry.\n\nFurther steps need writing or some other system for recording numbers such as tallies or the knotted strings called khipu used by the Inca empire to store numerical data. Numeral systems have been many and diverse.\n\nFrom the beginnings of recorded history, the major disciplines within mathematics arose out of the need to do calculations on taxation and commerce, to understand the relationships among numbers, to measure land, and to predict astronomical events. These needs can be roughly related to the broad subdivision of mathematics, into the studies of quantity, structure, space, and change.\n\nMathematics since has been much extended, and there has been a fruitful interaction between mathematics and science, to the benefit of both.\n\nMathematical discoveries have been made throughout history and continue to be made today. According to Mikhail B. Sevryuk, in the January 2006 issue of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, "The number of papers and books included in the Mathematical Reviews database since 1940 (the first year of operation of MR) is now more than 1.9 million, and more than 75 thousand items are added to the database each year. The overwhelming majority of works in this ocean contain new mathematical theorems and their proof."\n[edit]\n\nInspiration, pure and applied mathematics, and aesthetics\n\n    Main article: Mathematical beauty\n\nMathematics arises wherever there are difficult problems that involve quantity, structure, space, or change. At first these were found in commerce, land measurement and later astronomy; nowadays, all sciences suggest problems studied by mathematicians, and many problems arise within mathematics itself. Newton invented infinitesimal calculus and Feynman his Feynman path integral using a combination of reasoning and physical insight, and today's string theory also inspires new mathematics. Some mathematics is only relevant in the area that inspired it, and is applied to solve further problems in that area. But often mathematics inspired by one area proves useful in many areas, and joins the general stock of mathematical concepts. The remarkable fact that even the "purest" mathematics often turns out to have practical applications is what Eugene Wigner has called "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics."\n\nAs in most areas of study, the explosion of knowledge in the scientific
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I think math is wonderful, there are so many uses for it. It is an ever expanding topic too, I don't think we will ever find a "limit" to what we can do with math
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our life is based on math, but we dont notice usually, for example , when look at your points in yahoo answers and try to increase it, it means u use an exteremely mathematical logic, thank u  , bye
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Yes.  And it happens more and more each time I open my math books.   Seriously, but that doesn't stop me.  My professor says that mathematicians are people who have a high tolerance for frustration.\n\nAnd it is really worthwhile, when you finally realize that you have made progress, and are able to appreciate the beauty of a subtle and intricate theory.\n\nThe alternative is to not experience growth, and just grow stale.
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It isn't necessarily the daily use of mathematics which pediatricians require, it is the demanding intellectual challenges and problem solving skills which Medical School and the process of becoming a medical doctor and the act of practicing medicine itself which requires the mental aptitude developed in part by the study of mathematics. \n\nRemember, doctors are scientists first. It is impossible to become a doctor without a strong backgroud in mathematics.
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Most of the answers have gone off on a rant about math. Pretty funny. I teach math, and that is the only question I ever get...when am I ever gonna use this? Well, SOME of you will be math teachers. Even if you say "oh no, not me". We don't fall out of the sky. Someone does it, and it might be YOU!!!   ;)\n\nTo answer your question on transformations, they are used in many places. Would an accountant use it...NO!! But imagine moving a sofa from one house to another. First you slide it across the room (hardwood floors), which is a translation. Then you angle it to go around a corner and down the hall...that is a rotation. Then you pick it up and turn it upside down to get it out the door, that would be a reflection!\n\nHere is a better example: a video game programmer. You couldn't possibly program every position into the game...it would take an enormous amount of storage. What they do is program the basic shape of the monster, then make him undergo transformations such as translations and rotations to give him action. Next year when you take intermediate algebra you will see something called matrices. These are what are used in essence by some coders to make the objects you see come to life.\n\nAnd since I am bored right now, let me give you the first example in history where this math was used by industry: the industrial revolution! Textile makers realized that they could program their machines to make repeated patterns for the clothes (usually glide reflections). We know that the industrial revolution led to our current craze with oil and energy use, which is causing the greenhouse effect (unless you are G.W.Bush), which will possibly alter the Earth's environment permanantly, causing the demise of humans. Imagine: math destroying the world!! Rub that in your math teachers face!\n\nBut I don't recommend throwing pancakes...that could get messy!\n\nps: to the accounting major (2 year degree): if you get a 4 year degree in accounting at the University of Utah, and probably many other places, you have to take math through calculus...they use math abilities to weed people out of programs. Is that why you stopped at two years??
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I like Math so much.\nI always get A in the Math.
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Algebra is needed for SO many things! Recipes, budgeting you name it. It teaches problem solving. Geometry is good to shape your mind to think logically. I actually took geometry twice out of my own free will because I loved proving the angles were equal or whatever. My mind was never so sharp. Trig, well I actually haven't found a use for that yet....
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In order for math to be interesting to you, you should make it part of you, and part of your life. you would have to use it in your every day life basis. don't use it like when you have to do your homework or practice for SAT, but use it like when you are eating, look for what is the percentage of each category of food you are eating, make equation about it, and you will practice even without knowing. like if you playing cards or marbles, or dices, whatever you are doing, just make it mathematically, and once you do that, math is going to be part of your basic life and it is going to be fun for you, you understand it more and more, cause sometimes this is what i usually do.
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In general, there isn't much use unless your job requires it. Some jobs today, usually having to do with computers, need Algebra. I read an article in a business magazine that said some of the higher level computer-based jobs need the higher level math and Algebra was listed.\n\nThe problem is, if your brain doesn't work that way, and creative people usually use the other side of their brain, Algebra drives them nuts. They are better suited for Statistics.
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Truth be told in my experience most engineers don't use calculus very often.  An understanding of calculus is required to find derivations for most formulas that are used.  But in practical application most problems are solved making assumption that simplfy problems to simple algebra.  One application used in practice is definte intergration ussually using a spreadsheet.