Maths should be made mandatory for engineering preferred students and not for students who go for other major fields like
Arts, medicine etc,were Math’s doesn’t play a major role.
Elementary to high school the math’s for non-engineering stream students should have Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, and basic accounts to lead a happy life from childhood to Adulthood.
We need to get this in social engineering to build a good citizen without any advanced maths.
Calculus, Trigonometry, Geometry, theories and proofs never applied in other major fields after a high school.
When parents doesn’t have time to teach math’s, they have to hire tutors.
Many students have the phobia of Math’s. Due to which they go into depression and sometime it lead's to suicidal tendencies.
Except Math’s, Most of the students do well in other subjects.
2006-10-27 17:59:21 · 7 answers · asked by Macha 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
The problem is not that art students CANT understand math. The problem is with the way it is taught IMO. Math classes are always taught by mathematicians. Anyone who gets any degree in math thinks in a different way, left brained or whatever. Calculation before concept so to speak. Right brain people don't think that way, but you will don't see psychologist teaching a statistics class or a Marketing rep teaching a calculus course, although math is useful in those disciplines.
Without the application of math there is no way to verify the certain truth of anything. Disciplines that don't require math on the surface still benefit from math. Take psychology for example, without statistics you can rarely make a convincing argument. I think the way math is taught in these disciplines needs to be TOTALLY revamped.
Some college kid being sad is really no reason to abandon the usefulness of math altogether, and its benefits to the world at large. I don't want an anesthesiologist who flunked out of his math courses growing up and then puts me under the knife.
2006-10-28 12:29:55 · answer #1 · answered by Tacereus 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thank you for saying this, because a lot of people feel the same way. If students go on to do Social Sciences at College, or many other degrees, some complex Math is required. My concern is that some people who teach elementary school are not inspiring a love for and success in Math. Everyone is able to succeed if they are given learning opportunities which work for them. Research shows that people with a Math phobia can often be successfulwhen they have a teacher who makes the stuff achievable for them.
2006-10-28 01:04:31 · answer #2 · answered by maggie_at0303 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No doubt there is some mathapobia here. But why stop there, why even learn how to count. Or study any science, who needs to know how anything works. Why study reading and writing we have television.
I think the basic problem is the way math is taught. We bore kids to death with adding subtracting and division till they hate it then we try to introduce algebra. It should all be taught together.
By the time a kid gets out of elementary school he should have the basics of algebra and trig. Calculus is a junior high subject.
Then they would have the math background necessary for studying chemistry and physics in high school. I heard a chemistry professor say once if you haven't studied quantum mechanics you are for this century equal to illiterate of the last century. I believe that is true.
My dad didn't graduate from high school and couldn't help with quantum mechanics, which was fine for him. But it may not be fine for the next generation.
2006-10-28 01:17:32 · answer #3 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Come on maths easy. For me anyways. The problem is really the teachers aren't teaching the problems right. Last year in algebra nothing made sense and I got a C. This year with a different teacher I've got an A learning basicly the same stuff. Math is important for other fields than engineering and healthcare. Accounting uses it too. The list goes on.
2006-10-28 01:15:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Since when the heck did students who are majoring in healthcare and medicine not have to use math? You have to be able to do calculations to give the right doses of medication. You have to be able to calculate how many drops of IV fluid per minute. You have to be able to calculate the ratio of medication to give a patient depending on a patient`s body weight so you do not overdose the patient.
2006-10-28 01:07:11 · answer #5 · answered by Sparkles 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I need two math courses to finish my degree, I suck so much in Math that I never went back to finish them, it's "Torture" for me, it seems to work Backwards (Math) therefor appears "ILLOGICAL" to me :(
2006-10-28 01:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm.....
2006-10-28 01:01:36 · answer #7 · answered by aries 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋