Math – It is Everywhere
There’s school, and then there’s the real world. At least, that’s what it often seems. But actually, if we pull off the masks and facades covering everything in this real world we live in, we find that behind them all are the things we do in school.
This is especially true for math. Math is really everywhere. It’s one school subject you’ll be able to make use of in every part of your daily life. And I’m not just talking about if you become an investment banker, either. Look carefully, and you’ll find that there’s math behind almost everything you do, work or play. A good understanding of math can help you live your chosen life to the full, no matter what kind of life that might be.
Do you enjoy watching sports? Math helps you make sense of the scorecards, and enables you to calculate the running averages of each of the players and the chances they have before the match even begins. Without math, you can never have more than a surface understanding of any game.
In fact, with math you can figure out your chances whenever you play a game that seems to be completely random. You can find out the likelihood of a win even before you start playing.
Or, if your game is dependent on skill and not on chance, you can figure out your ideal moves and change a likely loss to a likely win. For instance, math equations can help you calculate the particular angle and perfect amount of force to kick that ball so that you’ll end up with a trajectory that brings that ball straight into the goal.
Math allows you to plan travel; little overnight trips to the next town or major transcontinental explores. Figure out how long it takes to get where you want to go, how much gas it will take, and how much the gas will cost. Or if you like to think big and want to plan a hiking trip to the Himalayas instead of to the next town, use math to find out how much money you have to put aside each week so you can go next summer, and, after you get there, how many kilometers you can cover in a month, doing six hours a day at your regular walking speed.
