How does math affect everyday life?
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It lets you balance your check book!
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It's not that mathematics always works, it doesn't. You just study the part that has been shown to work, not the part where it fails.\n\nFor example, mathematicians spent years trying to solve the problem of squaring the circle. That is , given a circle, they wanted to be able to construct a square that had the same area as the circle (using compass and straightedge).  It can't be done. \n\nThey also spent years trying to find a method for trisecting angles. Again they failed because it can't be done. There are some angles that you can't trisect.\n\nSo for everything that you have studied that always works, there are dozens of things that you don't study because they are only true some of the time.\n\nOh, and in spite of all the fools who keep posting the "proof", 1= 0 is never true.
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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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Don't believe it when people tell you that you don't need to know geometry or algebra.  Depending on what you do in your life you may never have to prove that angles A and B are the same and you may never have to solve for X, but that doesn't mean that algebra and geometry aren't useful.\n\nThe purpose of learning math isn't so much to know math itself (although for some that's essential).  It's more about teaching you how to think.  Studying math helps you to think logically and dispassionately.  That can serve you well in life.\n\nAlso, algebra and geometry teach you how to think abstractly.  People who can't think abstractly tend to be very limited in their thinking and in their lives in general.  If everything you think about has to be concrete and obvious, you are going to be a very narrow person.\n\nIn my opinion, passing basic algebra should be an exit requirement for high school.
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A lot of formulas and programming involved which requires a mathamatical mindset.  Computers are setup based on math.
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I suppose you could think of it like this: Everyone who seriously studies mathematics should realize the beauty of it, and perceive its fundamental truths. So truth and beauty combined are the rewards of mathematics. However, there is no denying that pure mathematics is perhaps the most challenging of all subjects. For some, this takes away from or DIVIDES the effects of the truth and beauty.
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I know that we have a world of information at our fingertips. \nI am sure it damages our math skills, but our minds are certainly broader because of the wealth of information we recieve.\n\nThe smartest among us can see farther because they stand on the shoulders of giants
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No, chances are you will not use any advanced math in your life, ever.\n\nHowever, math does help teach logical thinking, which is something you can use every day of your life, regardless of what job you eventually get or what you do.  If you can do logic, you can solve almost any problem, work your way out of any difficulty, and understand the flow of the world.\n\nDon't think of it as useless math.  Think of it as doing brain push-ups.
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I majored in math in college.  All my professors said the hard part about math is the English.  If you cant read it properly then you cant do the problems.  Another part is people dont want to learn the postulates and theoroms needed to solve the problems.
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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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theres a lot of things. if you have x amount of money in the bank and need y amount of money for rent and food then spending z amount of money on clothes will keep you in your spending limit! haha! or if for some reason your boss decides to build a wall and you have x & z but the equasion is x + y= z. i dunno man. algebra sucks but until they take it off the needed for graduation list your stuck with it.
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Mathematical ideas become more exciting, tangible and memorable when you act them out with your whole body.\n   \nFor several examples that treat math and dance as a single creative activity, not as two separate disciplines, go here:
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I like maths and I'm very good at it. As I'd say, I do calculations every day. I also like chemistry, but only inorganic.  I find it very interesting.
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Math is needed for lots of things!\nDo your homework!\n\nhttp://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.why.math.html\nThere are actually thousands of different jobs that require some knowledge of mathematics. Here are more than 30 firsthand accounts from Mathematicians at Work telling what some college math majors are doing, from an Air Traffic Control Systems Analyst and a Lawyer to a Data Capture Facility Troubleshooter on the Hubble space telescope.\n\nExactly How Is Math Used In Technology?, from the Mathematics Department of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, provides examples of math uses for biomedical engineering, food technology, building technology, chemical sciences, civil and structural engineering, graphics and computer-aided drawing (CAD), electronics, environmental health, mechanical engineering, mining technology, nuclear medicine, occupational health, petroleum technology, prosthetics, forestry and wildlife, robotics, and surveying.
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The real world contains minute details that can never be measured with total accuracy. But even though we can't do better than approximations, the unnatural precision in our made-up math enables us to at least better our understanding of things, as we better our approximations.\n\nI'm not sure what you mean by suggesting that math is "flawed". For one, math is not really all about numbers, it is about logic--the logic that first led us to reason that there existed transcendental numbers (also not sure what you mean by "unresolved"). I think part of the problem is that you've been led to a mistaken belief about what math purports to be. Math is not science--at least, it is certainly not a science of the natural world because a lot of real mathematics considers situations that are not considered to necessarily exist in reality. If anything, math is a science of ideas, and even that is waxing poetic a bit. As far as natural science is concerned, math is a conceptual tool--it can form the backbone of scientific theories but it is not science.\n\nExplaining the universe through math is "no more accurate than our explanations of god(s)"? How can you possibly hope to justify such a statement? Are you saying that theology, in the complete absence of math, could enable us to correctly land probes on distant planets, or design electronic computers, etc.?
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Mathematics can be found everywhere because the heart of Mathematics is founded on basic concepts that is able to represent more complex issues in ways that are consistent, predictable and can be processed to solve real world problems.\n\nEvery human carries with him/her a human metronome that counts regularly between 60-100 beats per minute - your heart.\n\nRegular counting is translated into Rhythms, Rhythm plus Notes (musical notes of mathematically structured frequencies, e.g. A-440Hz) gives you Music, Music cut on CDs are done by digital encoding. Digital encoding needs compression to maximise storage, good encoding, needs good Mathematics to get good results. Encoding can be used for Videos, you get DVD, High Definition TVs.\n\nYou purchase these goods with your credit card, the financial industry needs, security codes and authentication to validate purchases, these needs Mathematics. The data generated by large amount of transactions requires mathematical processing to make sense of it. Statistical analysis to do data mining, analysis and presentation.\n\nAnalysis help to generate more intelligence so that manufacturers can target the correct market with the correct products. Companies makes lots of money and get funding in the stock exchanges, stock exchanges uses technical analysis and modeling to predict performance of companies. You invest in the stock market, you made a kill and laugh all the way to the bank. Don't tell me now, at the bank, we are back to Mathematics again. Yes, you draw some money and you have a candle light dinner with your loved one. Beautiful music is played and you remember Mathematics is in Music and your Heart beat is comforted, relaxed and striking at a comfortable 60 beats per minute. \n\nAnd you sit sit back and reflect "Why, Mathematics does have an effect on the entire world!"
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Many life problems can be solved with mathematics. \n\nFor example algebra, it's very useful to solve problem with many factors involved. For example, when you choose someone to be your boyfriend. Of course, you will combine all of his factors that make you interest (how much polite, romance, smart, gentle, etc.) and then you decide if the result is appropriate for you. If you make algebra formula for this problems that will be :\n\nTo become your boyfriend = how much (polite + romance + smart + gentle + others), or\nB = ap + br + cs + dg + O........................... (a,b,c,d = how much)\n\nMany people use algebra from the simple way to most complicated one to solve their problems, even though they don't realize they have used it. Like your father, to make good result of wood works he must calculate well and use algebra too, even though he use the simple one. \n\nIf you can understand mathematics well, you will can solve many problems with faster, simple and efficient way. I know mathematics is very difficult subject, that's why you have to discuss more with your teacher to make you more understand. Don't be shy to ask your teacher if you don't understand. Good teacher will be glad and supports students who interest their subject and will ensure that all students understand.\n\nGood luck