Do Math Everyday?
All throughout our school lives, math has often been a topic that intrigues some, and frustrates others. We see it as a basic part of our education that may not ever help us in life and we just have to take it. However, math helps us with a lot of things we take granted. Counting change or finding the square footage of a house all revolve around numbers and ratios. That's why President Reagan created Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month for April.
Mathematics is the science about numbers, their values, and spaces. Although we think that math will never help us with our daily lives, it’s actually the opposite. Computer science, economics, medicine, and space exploration are all based on mathematics. We all have some sort of computer at home and we all have taken medicine at one point or another. Small things like using a thermometer to find the temperature or counting the amount of items one has in a shopping cart all starts from learning numbers in school. Engineers use more complex mathematics to solve equations and find how much area or volume something takes up. These little parts of math they help engineers build phones to cars. Without math, we would not have the basis for these topics and would be unable to apply it to everyday problems.
Statistics is a branch of math that involves collecting and looking at large amounts of data or numbers. Statistics or stats, is a way for analysis to gather data and make interesting discoveries from them. Lots of graphs and percentages we get are from using stats in everyday life, analyzing daily things we do and relating them to an average. These mathematical topics help us relate how many people have a type of disease or the performance record of a product. Without math in our lives, many technologies that we take for granted would not exist, let alone improved upon to further benefit our lives.
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