2007-02-02 14:48:30 · 14 answers · asked by geralyn p 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Its something you use every day whether you admit it or not, money, temperature, recipes, even cooking all depend on math. Get used to it, You need it. by the way, your computer is all just a series of math.
2007-02-02 14:51:49 · answer #1 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Modern educational systems often portray math as just another bunch of mumbo-jumbo based on rote memorization, and that the point is because colleges or jobs want it. In everyday life, it does help to know how to make sure you don't get ripped off while grocery shopping because you know math. But sometimes I sit back and think about just how special the subject is. It is not like learning a programming language, which would not be popular if industry and corporate preferences did not exist, or like working with a machine if technology did not advance that particular way. It's remarkable to think that if one day we did not exist, or society does a 360 on how it thinks, that the sociology or economics, for example, that we learn today could have no value. Literature and art arguably wouldn't exist without the human mind. Even the physics and chemistry of our world could be different in another universe with different physical constants. But mathematics would still be there.
Whether or not math is invented is still a matter of debate, but I personally don't think that talking about "the guy who invented it" makes sense. An alien species might develop a number system that allows for the division of zero and never think of the imaginary numbers (ie. sqrt(-1)), or develop geometry on a surface that is not a plane - but that doesn't mean the math that we're used to is false - within our rules and definitions our theories make logical sense, and the same goes with the aliens' theories. We had different empirical observations, and hence a different idealization of them, than the aliens did - but that doesn't mean the underlying mathematical structure is false.
2007-02-02 17:15:33 · answer #2 · answered by alphadelicious 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause it is used in everyday life!......
1.when you go to the store or any placy you spend money at if you dont know how to count then the cahsier could possibly be chearting you out of your money
2.if you are a cashier one day and the power goes out and you have to add all the things up on paper!u willhave to add,tax,and percent off if something if a % off!
3.if you want to persue a great esucation!
4.if you get a job.say if your boss said you were getting a 50% raise and you dont know how to add and he only gave you like $2.00 then he just made cheated you out your money becaue you dont know your math
5.if you are at the gas station and you put 30.00 dollars on the pumpbut your car only took 25.00 if you go back into the gas station to get your change and she gives you only 2.00 back then you have a promblem!u just got ripped off again!
6.if you want to build building and you need to measure or convert measurements then you have a promblem.
7.if you want to get new tile or new windowns and you dont know how to measure and convert your measurements to the requirements of the tile or windows.say if you measured inches but they wanted the measurements in millimeters!
-there are a lot of reasons but the point is math is importnat you might not think so now but you will n some point of like!
2007-02-02 15:46:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "point" in mathematical terms is typically assumed to be a specific location that has no length in any dimension. As a concept, it is a critical building block in Geometry since there are usually assumed to be a handful of commonly understood objects: point, line, segment (finite part of aline between two points), ray, etc.
The point is the most fundamental of these.
(Actually, assuming you really meant, "what is the purpose of math?" - there are many, but the most senseless of them is to confuse others with answers like the one I gave above)
2007-02-02 15:36:07 · answer #4 · answered by dukebdevil93 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the basis of physical science. It is also a creation and a thing of beauty and elegance in its won right. It opens the mind to theories that are undreamed without it regarding the originis and behavior of the universe from the level of the particles making up the atoms to the structure of all that exists. Without it, there would be no civilization as we know it.
2007-02-02 14:53:23 · answer #5 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go ahead and think Math has no point. You think no one has thought about it before? We still have Math, it is everywhere, if there was no point to it, we wouldn't have it.
2007-02-02 15:10:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
so in the future you can work anywhere and not struggle when you have to handle your money. You'd probably lose all your money if you didn't know anything about math. Learning it is a hassle when your young, but it'll pay off in the future.
2007-02-02 14:57:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on the type of math it is, and the type of job you have, or will have, it will be a part of your every day life.
2007-02-02 14:57:36 · answer #8 · answered by trottergirl80 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mathematics is a way to quantify and explain the patterns found in the universe.
2007-02-02 14:51:04 · answer #9 · answered by disposable_hero_too 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though I'm really good at math, i think it is really stupid. i wish the person that so called "invented" all of it was never born.
2007-02-02 15:03:29 · answer #10 · answered by lizbiz707 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋