Why is math important??

Question

How can we use it?
How can we apply it to our everyday life?
If theres no math,how would it affect us?

please give examples!! thx!

Answer 1

We would be taken by greedy people who know it.
We would still be sitting by the fires in caves... throwing rocks at each other.
Things I used math for:

Buying things
Getting a degree
Building decks
Putting a roof on my house (pythagorean therum)
Navigating (vectoring two dimensions plus current and wind)
Many other things!

Answer 2

You have to add the items in your grocery cart to see if you have enough money in your checking account.
Geometry is especially important in construction, surgery, physics, engineering, etc
Without math, we are back to counting on our fingers. One example, Clan of the Cave Bear, a story about a girl who is reared by troglidites (Neanderthals), tells how only the clan's shaman had the ability to think past the number of fingers and toes.
How would we have reached the moon without math to plot the trajectory of the spacecraft?
Without math, how do you know how much to ask your mom for when you buy your next iPod?

Answer 3

Math isnt important. Math is a distraction made up by the government to stray us away from area 51. Dont give in, just tell him no.

Answer 4

Why is problem-solving important?

At its root, math is problem-solving. Math helps you analyze situations and figure out how to best deal with them. That's a handy skill for anyone to have.

Without math, there would be no civilization as we know it. It would be impossible to make any modern machinery or have a functioning economy.

Answer 5

Math is used in EVERYTHING!! It's used make videogames(Trigonometry), design cars, build houses(Geometry), program computers(Calculus), calculate taxes(Exponential Growth and Decay), design furniture(Geometry), build landmarks, making those ipods and other electronic devices(Logrithmic Functions), for "gambling"(Probability and Expected Value), even for calculating change(BASIC MATH)!!

If there wasn't any math then we would not have ANY of these luxeries and privaledges. That is why math is so important in our world.

Answer 6

You use math all the time. Figuring things out. Building things, counting things, figuring how much of what needs what. I mean.. you use math non stop!

If there was no math, we would still be trying to figure out how make fire

Answer 7

math is important because it is a part of our everyday lives..math has a lot of topics that are involved in our everyday living..we use the four major operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) when we need to solve a problem or to simply count things..buildings and houses won't be created if math wasn't there to be studied..a person won't even know what a prism is so he wouldn't be able to create a building and buildings are prisms..

teachers ask us to solve problems because if we dream to be chemists someday..we'd have to know how to solve problems well..we'd be dealing with it when we grow up..we'd need bank accounts..we'd have to learn to pay for bills and all those adult stuff..

if there's no math..buildings won't be created..successful companies would disappear..we won't know how to pay for our bills..in fact..people won't even know how to take care of it..that's why math is very important to our lives..

Answer 8

MATH IS UBER IMPORTANT!!! We can use it to do our taxes. We can use it to prove other students as idiots If we didn't have math, we could never tell what your foot size is, thus making it harder to figure out which shoe you would like to wear. Ending the world as we know it.

Answer 9

Math is the most fundamental of all sciences. Everything we have today, cell phones, MP3 players, computers, etc. are a result of math.

Answer 10

Other than all the math related realities here, doing math is also a training to our brain, it gets our brain activated.