how is math important for life?
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The first is basically "the more you know, the more options you have \navailable." Fractions, geometry, algebra, and trig \nwill all be integrated into just about anything you ever want to \nstudy, and having practiced those things in high school will allow \nyou to not have to worry about relearning them later. Slope-intercept \nform for economic graphs or for population models in biology should be \nsecond nature, so that you don't have to worry about math later and \ncan focus on what you really do want to study.\n\nFor example, let's say you want to be an ecologist. Ecologists often \nstudy population size. Let's say that you're studying a population \nwhose size increases like this: size = 2 * time + 100. This is a \nstandard slope-intercept equation. A lot of people don't want to learn \nslope-intercept because it doesn't seem to have any point. But if you \nunderstand it enough that you don't have to think about it, then when \nyou see an equation like that, you won't have to worry about the math \nat all and you can just think about the ecology.\n\nSo basically, the idea here is that if you learn math now, then when \nyou're confronted with math later in life, you won't have to worry \nabout it at all and instead you can just pay attention to what you \nwant to.\n\nThe alternative strategy is to not learn math now. You can wait and \nsee what math you end up needing for your job or your future education \nand just learn that. That's okay in principle, but you'll end up \nplaying "catch-up" all the time.\n\nWhen I finished the math requirements at college, I was really happy \nat the time because I didn't like math then and I was glad to be done \nwith it. These past couple of years, I've gotten interested in \ncomputer science as a hobby. However, not having any advanced math I \ncan't go very far with it, so if I wanted to do anything with it, I'd \nhave to go back and take a lot of math classes that would've been \neasier for me to take a couple of years ago.\n\nSince you don't know for sure what you're going to do with your life, \nit's best to keep your options open. Of course, you can't learn \neverything, and sooner or later you have to decide what you do want to \nstudy. But, whatever it is, having a good background in math will put \nyou ahead.\n\nThe second reason to study math is that it gives you a different \nperspective on things. I think that most people hate math because it \nis taught just as an exercise in memorization. You get the impression \nthat all there is to math is just a bunch of formulas that you can \nlook up in a book. I think of math as something totally different.  \nCheck out these two links:
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I like math because its more something you can be sure about... like it was said before it has a definite answer, but also once you learn the formula's its easy, and for those who are not all that good at spelling, or art its a easy break out of English based subjects.
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Because it has no real form, there are many equations, and new ones being invented every day, Math is the base of life, its more opionion than fact thats its abstract, Math is a mystery just like humans, evolution or space.\n\nIf you really think about it hard and long you will come to the conclution thats its a mystery.
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so we can build things find how far we are from the sun to make cloths cut hair find out ore wast size weld things togetter also so that fires to melt things don't get to hot make sure that 18 wheelers can fit under briges  to be able to see if you are ovulating how long it would take you to get places ect I think that's enought for you right now but the list can go on and on math is good for all sort of thing even if its just adding or subtracting so that's why we need math just thing that a house would look like it we didn't math and all of those others that I listed up there.
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Properties of mathematics makes it work. I'm not sure exactly what it has you do but essentially it does this.\n\nIf your number is X. You add 5 to it then subtract 5 from it and you get your original number. Of course the nice ones hide the fact that your doing exactly this. \n\nDavid Copperfield did a TV bit once where he had a 3X3 square. You start out at any square you want and move according to his directions. After each move he took away a square. In the end you always end up on one square. That was cool. Anyone heard of it?
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Important. Need to know fractions for recipes, splitting the bill, shopping sales racks, helping your kid out with math homework, etc. If you know your math and reading/spelling you can excel in the job world.
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Math is a pursuit of truth in the physical world, the basis of scientific inquiry.
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I assume you mean Career, though I suppose someone could carry math around in their head in much the same fashion as people carry about the common cold.  Instead of one sneeze to the next, it could be one equation to the next you pass on.\n\nOkay all kidding aside, generally math is more an adjunct skill than an avocation.  By that you can use your math talents to work in a hundred niches - everything from designing computer code to designing algorithms to keeping books to teaching school.  The only thing limiting you is your imagination and your willingness to grab at opportunities when they come knocking on your door.\n\nAs a long ago National Math Merit Scholar I wish you luck.
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It's a real "use-it-or-lose-it" skill, but most people find that their major problem in mathematics is a poor understanding of the basic ideas. And I do mean basic! Math is a harsh mistress, and those small 'easy' mistakes often trip people over more than larger problems! So take a crack at any problem areas you KNOW you have and stuff, stuff, stuff your brains with it!
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Math.  Why do we need to know half of the things they teach us in it???
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divide your enemy, multiply as a family, add your wealths , substract your sorrows.  Thats the mathematics called LIFE. .
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Calculus is important because it is the branch of mathematics that allows you to examine more than one variable at once.  Time and speed or speed and position for instance.  It can also get more complicated as you add more variables.  Because you live in a world with many variables it is important to have a type of mathematics that deals with many variables.  \nThis is why it has applications in Business, Economics, Physics, Engineering and just about anything else you can think of.
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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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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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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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Mathematics (colloquially, maths or math) is the academic discipline that deals with such concepts as quantity, structure, space, and change. It evolved, through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning, from counting, calculation, measurement, and the study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Mathematicians explore such concepts, aiming to formulate new conjectures and establish their truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions.[1]\n\nKnowledge and use of basic mathematics have always been an inherent and integral part of individual and group life. Refinements of the basic ideas are visible in ancient mathematical texts originating in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and ancient India, with increased rigour later introduced by the ancient Greeks. From this point on, the development continued in short bursts until the Renaissance period of the 16th century where mathematical innovations interacted with new scientific discoveries leading to an acceleration in understanding that continues to the present day.[2]\n\nToday, mathematics is used throughout the world in many fields, including science, engineering, medicine and economics. The application of mathematics to such fields, often dubbed applied mathematics, inspires and makes use of new mathematical discoveries and has sometimes led to the development of entirely new disciplines. Mathematicians also engage in pure mathematics for its own sake without having any practical application in mind, although applications for what begins as pure mathematics are often discovered later on
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Algebra and all the Maths that one learns at school and college are tools which are ultimately used by Scientists, engineers, doctors, and almost all the people who have something to do with science. Even social scientists like historians and sociologists use it. \n\nIt may seem abstract but Maths is the underlying machinery of the Universe.