With apologies to Dr. Seuss.
This is an excerpt from the reference article listed below by Hortensia Soto.
Math in everyday life
Many topics you learn in elementary school – like fractions, percentages and measurements – are useful in everyday life.
For example, if you want to build a fence around your house, paint your walls a new color or with a design, or sew yourself a new outfit or quilt, all of those activities require knowledge about measurement and scaling. More complicated construction projects, such as building a treehouse, require lots of mathematical problem-solving skills.
Once you’ve laid out the plans for one of these projects, you need to buy all the materials. Percentages – which are special kinds of fractions – are especially important to understand when managing money. Understanding percentages can help you budget your money and increase your net worth.
Beyond budgeting, you might find yourself using percentages when cooking a double batch of brownies, determining how much medicine to take when you’re sick or understanding the weather forecast.
Math helps your brain
It’s important to remember that doing math doesn’t require you to be fast or to get the correct answer right away. In fact, you can learn a lot by getting the wrong answer. Working with other people can also help you to make sure you really understand the problem and builds communication and teamwork skills.
Math is so much more than memorizing times tables and filling out homework problem sets. So next time you kick back to watch your favorite animated movie, or start saving up for a fancy new tech gadget, hopefully you’ll appreciate how math is woven into so many parts of life.
References
Soto, Hortensia. “Will I ever need math? A mathematician explains how math is everywhere – from soap bubbles to Pixar movies”. 2023. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/will-i-ever-need-math-a-mathematician-explains-how-math-is-everywhere-from-soap-bubbles-to-pixar-movies-204609.
Additional Reading
Benny, Kevin. “Is Math Everywhere?”. 2023. Quora. https://qr.ae/pye9Ai.
So according to me math is pretty much that makes up everything, all of the universe because right from the creation to the end and even the existence can be questioned by math(beyond scope I guess). So math is life and it gives life. Math might be boring, hard but you will love it. Man has made his many accomplishments on this planet and maths has a big role to play. There is some secret behind math, something that you will find only if you will truly seek and then you will understand the universe and how it works.
“Maths Is Everywhere!” 2023. nrich.maths.org. https://nrich.maths.org/7414.
Mathematics is everywhere if you look carefully enough. Look at these 16 images. How many can you identify? What mathematics can you see in the images? Can you think of a reason for the shapes existing as they do? Can you spot shapes which share any common mathematical structures?
Moore, Samantha. “Why is math hard for most people?”. 2023. Quora. https://qr.ae/prdP59.
I am currently a PhD student in mathematics and I have done a lot of tutoring/teaching math over my college career. One of the biggest issues that I’ve noticed in my classmates and students that struggle with math is this: They view math as memorizing a bunch of formulas and applying them.
Photomath. 2023. “10 Reasons to Love Math.” Medium. Photomath. May 15. https://medium.com/photomath/10-reasons-to-love-math-678e5453cf3d.
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