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Importance of Mathematics in Daily Life
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INTRODUCTION
The importance of mathematics in daily life cannot be questioned.
Mathematics finds its application in the fields of science, technology, economics, business, commerce and computer design and functioning.
These fields may be advanced applications for the layman.
However even a simple common man find his math useful in his day to day life.
Consider a housewife going for groceries shopping. She would need to add up the total value of the things she bought and then when she pays the store teller, she needs to calculate how much change should she ask for back.
All that involves math. Even a 2 year old toddler, can tell the difference between a bigger and a smaller toy. That is nothing but math.
The importance of mathematics can be mainly categorized into two.
The first is that it helps man progress in the fields of science and technology.
The second is that it helps us to understand exactly how our universe works.
For the common man, knowledge of mathematics helps him in his personal development, not just at his workplace but also in enhancing his mental abilities.
Mathematics helps the common man to understand how the world around him functions. It also helps him realize how things can be changed for his betterment.
The mathematical tools that he can use for this purpose could be logical reasoning, problem solving ability, basic arithmetic etc. Basically it is the ability to think from various view points that helps him the most. And that itself is a part of mathematics.
Mathematics is very important in our daily life. It finds application in various types of professions, such as science and technology, medical, economic.
It is also useful in calculating environmental statistics and for make decisions that affect public in general.
Mathematics is basically related to understanding structure and pattern.
It is used to do logical analysis, make relevant calculations and eventually to deduce conclusions.
Practicing mathematics helps a person to be able develop the ability to imagine various situations. Since it helps our imagination, it helps get rid of factors that are less relevant or irrelevant to situations.
So we can think more clearly and our thought process becomes more logic based rather than intuition based.
In simple words, in our day to day life, we need to think more with our mind that with our heart, and mathematics helps us do just that.
Mathematics
The invention and ideas of many mathematicians and scientists led to the development of the computer, which today is used for mathematical teaching purposes in the kindergarten to college level classrooms. With its ability to process vast amounts of facts and figures and to solve problems at extremely high speeds, the computer is a valuable asset to solve the complex math-laden research problems of the sciences as well as problems in business and industry. Major applications of computers in the mathematical sciences include their use in mathematical biology, where math is applied to a discipline such as medicine, making use of laboratory animal experiments as surrogates for a human biological system. Mathematical computer programs take the data drawn from the animal study and extrapolate it to fit the human system. Then, mathematical theory answers the question of how far these data can be transformed yet still preserve similarity between species. Mathematical ecology tries to understand the patterns of nature as society increasingly faces shortages in energy and depletion of its limited resources. Computers can also be programmed to develop premium tables for life insurance companies, to examine the likely effects of air pollution on forest productivity, and to simulate mathematical model outcomes that are used to predict areas of disease outbreaks. Mathematical geography computer programs model flows of goods, people, and ideas over space so that commodity exchange, transportation, and population migration patterns can be studied. Large-scale computers are used in mathematical physics to solve equations that were previously intractable, and for problems involving a third dimension, numerous computer graphics packages display three-dimensional spatial surfaces. A byproduct of the advent of computers is the ability to use this tool to investigate nonlinear methods. As a result, the stability of our solar system has been checked for millions of years to come. In the information age, information needs to be stored, processed, and retrieved in various forms.
Mathematics disorder
Mathematics disorder, formerly called developmental arithmetic disorder, developmental acalculia, or dyscalculia, is a learning disorder in which a person's mathematical ability is substantially below the level normally expected based on his or her age, intelligence, life experiences, educational background, and physical impairments. This disability affects the ability to do calculations as well as the ability to understand word problems and mathematical concepts. Mathematics disorder was first described as a developmental disorder in 1937. Since then, it has come to encompass a number of distinct types of mathematical deficiencies. These include: The range and number of mathematical difficulties that have been documented suggests that there are several different causes for mathematics disorder. In addition, several known physical conditions cause mathematics disorder. Turner syndrome and fragile X syndrome, both genetic disorders that affect girls, are associated with difficulty in mathematics. Injury to certain parts of the brain can also cause inability to perform calculations. These conditions appear to be independent of other causes of mathematics disorder. Mathematics disorder is often associated with other learning disorders involving reading and language, although it may also exist independently in children whose reading and language skills are average or above average. The causes of mathematics disorder are not understood. Different manifestations of the disorder may have different causes. Symptoms of the disorder, however, can be grouped into four categories: language symptoms; recognition or perceptual symptoms; mathematical symptoms; and attention symptoms. People with language symptoms have trouble naming mathematical terms; understanding word problems; or understanding such mathematical concepts as "greater than" or "less than." People with recognition symptoms have difficulty reading numbers and such operational signs as the plus or minus signs, or aligning numbers properly in order to perform accurate calculations.