Is it important to learn Mathematics?
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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
427217
Math is about finding easier ways to solve more problems.  If it's still hard, you're not there yet.  Keep trying.
975421
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.
435553
Cool question.  I would ask your teacher the same question.  Hopefully, they might be able to make some changes to make learning easier for you.  Having a good grounding in math is a very important building block for almost everything in life - especially when you learn geometry and algebra.  \n\nGood luck!
685365
it's not like you need to know advanced mathematics, so go for it, give it a try. if you really like it, you'll start understanding that part of math after all. you'll get so used to it that you'll eventually dream of it. good luck.
1028420
since you got access to internet, thats already a good thing. you can surf the net for math tutorials or lessons. use yahoo search and type math tutorials. there you can have your lessons. the best way to study and learn math is to solve and solve problems... in this kind of subject, practice really makes perfect. no memorisation needed...\ngoodluck.\n\nps. i dont think any education is idiot. maybe there is just something wrong with the system. why would it be called education if its not educating. \n\ngoodluck
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All people must do taxes, math is everywhere. From the simple everyday life to the most extreme mathematician. That is like asking, does everyone really need to learn to read? From the guy at Mc. Donald's who must do some simple math at the register, to guys calculating rocket and satellite trajectories at NASA, math is absolutely everywhere.
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Everything can be mathematically based, so I would have to say the advantages of knowing mathematics totally outweighs the disadvantages of learning it.\n\nHistory\nMain article: History of mathematics \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."
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I'm no mathamatician myself but,\n\nMath is a subject that builds on itself, starting with simple addition and subtraction, then building on that for multiplication and division, then an understanding of fractions and decimals, then algebraic equations and trigonometry, then calculus etc etc etc…\n\nMy point is that often having trouble at one level in math, is the result of not having a good enough grasp of a lower level of math. Example small children who haven't learned their numbers cannot grasp the idea of addition, adding multi digit numbers is hard if you don't memorize addition tables (single digit addition) likewise multiplication is impossible without knowing addition, learning the multiplication tables is necessary to advance to higher forms of mathematics.\nAlso, most of math is memorization, and the best way to memorize anything is repetition. In order to memorize the multiplication (times) tables, you must either say or write them over and over again... regular daily quizzing yourself until the answers just come from memory, instead of having to think about them... it's the same with most of the basics in math.\nSo to answer your question, in general terms since I don't know what type of math is giving you difficulty, is to back up one step and be sure you have complete understanding of the lower level which will help alot with your current level.\nRemember, we are all born without an understanding of math, it is something that each of us have to work on.. Sure there are a few people born who seem to just be born with the skill, but most of us had to work to learn it :)\nYou can do this, just back up and study the basics, building on the basics with make the more complicated come easier.\n\nGood luck.
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The only advice i have learnt about education is that unless you have a will power to do it, there is no way you will succeed.  You need to have the stimulation that this is the course you want to do and this is the career i want to be and no matter what happens I will pass the course.  You have a relatively good chance of passing in computer but mathematics alone cannot determine.
761024
I disagree completely...mathematics is more about learning from others than any other subject I know...surround yourself with ppl no better than you, and you will never be challenged, and will lose ability over time.  Work with someone who is constantly pushing your potential, you will be getting better every single day.
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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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because its very important not only that but your teacher can help you threw your life and your skill that you learned in school can also help you EX. MATH: WHEN YOUR AT THE STORE YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO COUNT SO THEY DONT CHEAT YOU OUT OF YOUR MONEY
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Yes math is the single subject that gets used throughout your life. Even if you go on to do things that may seem unrelated to math like, become a sportsman, a lawyer etc., you continue to require mathematical skills.
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FIRST INCREASE YOUR INTEREST IN MATHS , THEN UNDERSTAND WHAT IS TAUGHT AND AUTOMATICALLY YOU WILL LEARN MORE AND MORE .
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Yes, mathematics is the language of physics. You can try to just understand and analyse the concepts, but you wont be able to go further, or even fully understand them, without using mathematics. Although it is true that there is a clear line between the mathematics of a concept, and the physics of it.\n\nEven the physicists who claims they are very bad with mathematics are still probably better than you or me with it.
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Sometmes when you see the actual application of mathematics things start to make more sense. Mathematics is the heart of engineering. If you like engineering and have love for it then you will then work hard to adore mathematics. ANd if you start to adore mathematics you are going to be a great engineer. \n\nAbout english ... read the news daily.....look up in dictionary if you don't understand. speak often.