why should we learn mathematic in school?
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You use math everyday
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The best way to study math and is to make sure you understand all the fundamentals. Relate them to things you already understand. \nDo lots of different types of problems to figure out what to don't understand.
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I love math!\n\nFirstly, it takes a lot less memorization than most subjects. Sure you have to remember a few formulas, and trig values, but compare that to the massive amounts of facts in history or law and bow down to the simplicity of math ;)\n\nSecondly, I'm good at it. That's a good enough reason.\n\nI also like how some problems look ridiculously simple, but solving them is really hard, sometimes near impossible (Goldbach's conjecture, for example, can be stated in one simple sentence, and a middle schooler could understand it. But it hasn't been proven for hundreds of years).\n\nAnd yeah, I hate tests and homework like any sane student. If that's how they teach math at a young age here, we'll have to surrender to India and China soon. The way that I got interested in math was through the use of math games (those rubber band thingies with the geoboard thingy!) and competitions. \n\nI remember in 5th grade, every week, we had a multiplication table contest. Whoever could fill out the table (from 1 to 12, I think) fastest would win some sort of prize. Do that nowadays, and you'll have parents whining to the teachers about how their kid always loses.
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It all comes down to the roots. What i mean is that once you know the basics mathematics, you will learn new things which build up on these skills, and once you get the hang of everything, you will love it. As with most things, the key to excelling at mathematics is practice!
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Math is a natural extension of human needs to count and measure. Cavemen probably did need to compare groups of things (Which group of stones is larger?) and that leads to comparison words (> < =) in human languages. Then natural numbers are invented to communicate and count quantitatively (1 2 3 ...). More operations, plus, minus, multiply, divide, are invented as needs arise and human societies and technology become more complex. \n\nIt's likely that school math curricula more or less trace such historical progress from basic to complex math knowledge. Starting from comparisons in kindergarten and go through numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percents, in primary school. Most of these constructs were known millennia ago. Then algebra, geometry, trigonometry--now studied in high school--were invented within the last few thousand years. Analytic geometry and Calculus, the next major advances, were built on algebra & geometry knowledge and matured to today's form in the last few hundred years. Today, they are studied in late high school and university years. \n\nMany, many people throughout history contributed to the advances and accumulation math knowledge. Prominent mathematicians did more than most and three people are often hailed as the most outstanding of mathematicians in history: Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.\n\nFor more details, see The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/
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Well the basic principles of mathematics are available to everyone.  People from any background intuitively understand core mathematical principles, such as A is equal to A, This amount plus this amount creates a new amount.  7 is greater than 5.\n\nLanguage on the other hand is entirely learned, and cannot be assumed without some experience in a culture.  Also language involves several different parts of the brain to speak, read, comprehend, and develop ideas.  \n\nOn the other hand, some mathematical constructs like calculus can only be shared through the use of a language, like english.  At this point mathematics can be much more elusive to understand than english.
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Maths is easy if you get into the flow and start thinking according to the problem. Its all about the frame of mind. We find it hard cause we are bored by it and don;t want to try for it. In your daily life, subconsciously, your head is doing millions of calculations every moment. Its capable of much more.
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Math skills help develop one's analytical abilities. Some people are gifted in math and it is easy for them. Others have difficulty with math. If you did well in grade school with math, then you will do well in higher education. Statistics should be a math course that you should consider.
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I like Calculus. You learn how to think logically in order to solve problems.  Plus, in Calculus, you'll learn why some things in math are the way they are. For example, have you ever wondered why the area of a circle is pi times the radius squared? Well, in Calculus you'll learn why.
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**Learn to translate English into mathematical notation and vice versa.  This is very helpful in solving story problems and figuring out why a theorem is true.\n\n**Master the basics.  If you can add, you can subtract; if you can find the square of a number you can find the square root.  Understand the distributive property and the important theorems of what you're studying.  \n\n**If you run into a problem that you can't solve easily, think about a problem you can solve that is similar to it.  Usually when you're learning math from a textbook, you can find examples to help.  \n\nThe way mathematicians solve problems usually starts with trial-and-error.  With examples and practice, they learn rules that they can use as shortcuts.  They then use these theorems and postulates to solve more complex problems.  Learning math uses the same concept - start with the basics and learn little tricks along the way to make things quicker.
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Knowing how to do math teaches you how to think logically.  This is what the left side of your brain does.  Creativity and such is what the right side is for.  If you know how to think logically then you will know how to make more rational decisions, how to win arguments better, and will have an easier time in most work environments.  It will also help you decide how to spend your money wiser, how to manage time more effectively, and even help you at video and computer games.
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Algebra is really very easy. Don’t get scared. You can teach yourself algebra\nAnd never tell yourself that you “are bad at math”. This nonsense, so many kids are afraid of math, or hate it, or think it is boring, simply because they never had a good teacher! Otherwise highschool math is really easy, simple! I have tutored a, supposedly ‘mathematically challenged” 7-grader, and after one year, she knew the whole highschool curriculum and passed GED math sample test!
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Maths. I never understood it. Probably i nver had any good teacher who explained it in a way i understood. u will like a subject only if u have understood it properly
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In fact, the calculus is simple but if you have problems you need to take many classes before it. However, if you have no math clue...well you should start again since the beginning. You can do it, ask for help always and study together with your classmates.
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G'day Sasta Banana,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nThere are benefits in learning mathematics assuming you have some aptitude. It gives you the skills hopefully to get a better job. It is very useful in finance or commerce. Similarly, it is key to studying advanced science or in technology as well as social sciences such as economics. There are a whole range of jobs where maths comes in handy from air traffic control or quantity surveying.\n\nRegards
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It is important because the different interpretations will be encountered as they try to apply their knowledge.  It's like teaching the use of a comma in a sentence is to separate a list, but then leave out the other uses of a comma.  Just knowing how to multiply isn't enough to get an understanding of when to multiply.  \n\nSo much of school and math in particular is sets of seemingly aribitrary rules.  But one of the main points of math is that the rules are, in fact, logical and not arbitrary.  So, if students learn that the mathetical operations are aribitrary rules and not steeped in a logical base, it gets very difficult for them to understand math at all.  That is to say that teaching more than one interpretation of mathematical operations can allow the students to see the logic behind the operation as opposed to memorizing the "hows"
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Math! because I had no idea what they teacher was talking about. I seriously did not understand it and I never understood what every tutor I ever had was telling me. Me being in math class was pointless I just took up space.