Why do people like Math?

Question

Okay I know everyone is different and that but please, people who enjoy math,explain to me why on earth you like it and what it is about it you like so much?

Answer 1

Dont fret - i dont dig em' one bit!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

There are tons of reasons why people like math.

1. Math teachers might make math fun for the students, and easy to understand. Kids would prefer an easy subject over a harder one.

2. Math comes easy for people, and they recognize how much they use it every day.

3. Seems unreal, but some kids have been told that math is fun all of their life. If someone is told something over and over, again, they will eventually believe it. Brainwashing.

Answer 4

Ok, everyone its very different but many people likes some challenges, when you have a chance to understand something in your life and you can do everything better in this case in particular, you feel something nice and every time you can do or you can understand how to funtion math you feel so good and your brain works hard and constantly.

Answer 5

Theres a certain satisfaction when you come across a difficult problem and are able to conquer it. I guess its like mountain climbing kinda. Also, it's really cool to see how nature works, especially when you start to find certain ratios and relationships (such as π, Φ, and e) popping up in all sorts of different applications, from radiation heat exchange, to compound interest, to the pine cones in the woods. It gives you a sense that there is an order to the universe, and whether or not you believe in God or some other divine power, it shows that things really have an underlying structure to them.

noooo, I'm not an enginerd, why do you ask?

Answer 6

unlike pretty much everything else in life... Math is black and white. There is no room for interpretation, there is no "well perhaps it could be this if you do it this way" Nope... its either right or wrong. There are rules and laws, with little to no exceptions (and the exceptions come on a level that the average person will never encounter). its like a multiple choice question that only has one answer.

And there is a challenge in remember your laws and rules to make sure you get to that right answer.

Answer 7

Maths is like a game . You learn the rules and then you can play ..with numbers , symbols , variables whatever .. So yeah , that is what it is for me .

Answer 8

If you're talking about math as a discipline: Math is absolute, discrete... That is in a math problem there's only one correct answer.

Besides, if you're reasonably good in math, you can fake most other courses. Physics and chemistry experiments, at least in the lower classes can be "retro-engineered."

In the pseudo-sciences (psychology, psychiatry, sociology, education, and in many areas, medicine) nobody really knows what they're talking about anyway. With math you can prove anything. If it's quantified, pseudo-scientists believe it.

Math teaches one to think objectively, logically. Math teaches one to work with problems that are totally outside ones normal daily activities and experiences. No other discipline does this.

If you're talking about math as a subject: I don't particularly like it. I am not a mathematician. I know a few. I've had a few as professors. I'll admit that some proofs are pretty awesome, but unlike some mathematicians, I don't consider understanding them a religious experience. I got my BA in math, I got a semester from my MA, but couldn't get into it. It's nice to know that there's a set-theoretical proof that 0+1=1, and that 1x2=2... but do I need to know it? Only if I'm going to be a math professor... or maybe if I'm going to get involved in some esoteric set-theoretical research.

Answer 9

becaue it's challenging. It requires alot of thinking. Most important of all, math is fun. It makes you feel a great sense of an achievement when you can solve a hard problem or at least problems that you have trouble with.

plus... you know math, you control money. LOL!

Answer 10

i really enjoy the mental challenge.
i have been out of formal schooling for nearly a decade, and i love coming on here to help people out mostly to see if i can still do it.

I believe a constant challenge to the brain is good in keeping it active and creative

Answer 11

math is amazing for so many reasons..lol
first of all..it does require memorization, but youre not just memorizing facts. and there is often another way to figure a problem out if you forget a formula or something. youre not just memorizing things, like i said, but instead more like plugging them in. like, for example, while it is helpful to memorize the multiplication tables, you dont absolutely have to as long as you know how to multiply. like in social studies or something like that, you have to remember specific facts. if you forget them, youre basically screwed..but math isnt really like that. and it always makes sense. theres always a way to check your answer and make sure you did it right, not so in other subjects. also, i love logic and i like to be able to understand things..and like i said, it makes sense..you can always figure out why something is the way it is..they dont just say "thats just the way it is"...another reason i like math is because youre gonna use it at some point in your life..u probably wont use the really complicated stuff but u will use a lot of it and that counts for something. sorry to ramble on..i could write a whole essay on this question =]]