...Math is as big a part of life as life is a part of math. From the time most of us start learning numbers and simple math, we usually ask two questions. First, “why do I have to learn this? “, and second,” when will I ever need to use math in real life? “. The truth of the matter is, we use math everyday whether we realize it or not. Math is used in one form or another hundreds of times a day in everything from the simplest chore we perform to the most difficult tasks we can think of. Mastering the skill of math, even simple math, can enable one to progress throughout life with much less stress and confusion. Once we learn numbers and simple math, it becomes like second nature to incorporate mathematics into our day. Consider the first thing most people do in the morning upon waking. For most of us, that involves looking at the clock to see what time it is. Therefore, numbers are one of the first things seen and automatically, without thinking about math, we calculate how much time we have before we have to be somewhere. Perhaps one only thinks of how long they slept? Regardless, math has usually been applied momentarily following waking from being asleep. Once awake, think of the math equations most of us perform throughout the day. The amount of addition and subtraction as well as multiplying and dividing ones time allotment for the day is substantial. (Math in Everyday Use, 2012) The math calculations performed by most in relation to time in the course of a day is just...
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...The life of a typical college student is learning to change your life style of working on your own. Learning to set a study schedule getting to class on time, and communication with a diverse culture of your peers. There are many jobs out there in math and science that will interest you. But most kids study very hard but still struggle with math and science and sometimes feel like giving up. So to give students the encouragements there are many different ways to help them. Mathematics and science is one of the most challenging this student or an adult can say is so confusing and sometimes can be frustrating. When you think about math all you really see is numbers and symbols and more and more numbers. But on the other hand when you think about science you see formulas and symbols and also more number they both favor some of the same things. That’s what makes them both very challenges and wiser. The reason that we need mathematics is to solve problems and to educate others. Probability and statistics for an actuary to analysis research. Insurance representative measure performances of field sales with internally and extremely to predict models on current and proposed scenarios. Teaching at all levels from k-1 until college levels. Architects use math to draw up a plans for and a building. He has to learn to stay within budget for the client. Biologist study life too many living things with structure, development and the function of plants. Of all these jobs structures there are...
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...As every casual day, people were wandering around in the busy streets of New York City, like chickens without a head. I was alone in the corner at St. Patrick’s High solving math problems in less than two minutes. I was looking forward to the International Math Contest. This was a competition which I’ve been hoping to participate in every year, but I was too afraid to express my talent to the rest of the world. Several students in my school find math to be their worst nightmare, but math has been created by the absolute beautiful person of all time, the almighty. If God is stunning then so are his creative activities. My desired creation of the almighty is mathematics, what an astonishing language to learn. Solving algebraic equations is like working on a thousand piece puzzle, one piece at a...
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...I Have had many challenging things that I have went through throughout my whole life but the biggest challenge that have been fighting throughout my whole life is math. Math has been my biggest dilemma since I started middle school. When I say I hate math I really mean I hate it. I hate everything about it. I am in high school going on a senior at Wichita East High School. I have many math classes and I still hate math. When I was a little boy, I was in elementary school so math was easy. I actually loved math because it was as easy as a kid. Math was my favorite subject. I went to many elementary schools as a kid. The school that I can remember are Kelly elementary, Reawoodman elementary, and Mueller elementary but I am sure that there are...
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...Algebra II is my favorite class related to the focus of the Science, Mathematics, Computer Science program. I learn many things that may help me in real-life situations and help me understand how computers work. One of the most interesting things I learned about was Linear Programming because we solved real-life problems using it. One problem was about a company selling two types of trail mix. Each type of trail mix used the same two ingredients, but different quantities. There were constraints on the ingredients. We learned to write equations for the constraints, graph them, and find a feasible region. We wrote the profit equation and tested the points of intersection from the feasible region to find which combination had the greatest profit. Matrices were also interesting to me. I found them fascinating because they help me understand how computer programs do complex functions. We learned about row reduction, determinants, and inverses. Study, work, and interaction are very important in math class....
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...How I use Math in everyday Life DeVry University Math-032 October 9, 2012 How I use Math in Everyday Life Math is everywhere you go. It is at the store when you go groceries shopping, when you go out for dinner, when you’re at work, and even when you’re asleep. We are always using some kind of fraction throughout the day. I deal with numbers just about everywhere I go. Math has always been on my vocabulary since I was young. Coming from a house of five, I deal with math every single day. I have to use math for my bills, the rent, groceries, gas, things that are important in the house. Now that I completed eleven and half years in the united Stated Marine Corps, I deal with a tremendous budget in my house. I know that things are not the same because I don’t have a steady income coming in I have to keep track of our expenses and cut back on a lot of unimportant expenses. No matter what we do whether it’s at work, home, or out in town, numbers will always be a factor. Math will be involved and that’s the good think about life. Most people need a solid understanding for financial success and math is the answer. (Huebsch, 2009) In life, you will always have that percent that only need to learn numbers to a certain point. We engage numbers at a very young age. No one really knows how long numbers have been around for. Most people understand the concept of numbers, equations, and the use of daily concepts. (Melayu, 2009) I could say that Im that percentage in my...
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...Math and Me Vanessa Bashore MM212: College Algebra “We both just did out fives yesterday, how can she be doing her sixes already today?” I can remember thinking this like it was yesterday instead of 29 years ago. I was in first grade, and we were doing our times tables. I had been the first one to do all of my numbers so far in the class, and now Sara was up there doing her sixes before I knew them. That would just not do for me, so that night I went home and learned the rest of my numbers, six through nine, to be able to do them for the teacher the very next day. I guess you can say that this is where my love for math started. I am not saying that I never had to study or that I have never struggled with any math in my life, but for the most part, most of the math classes I have taken in my life have come pretty easily to me. I love when you are struggling with something in math and all of a sudden you have that a-ha moment where everything suddenly makes sense. In the past I have taken all the basics in math including Algebra and Geometry. However, these courses were also taken almost 20 years ago, and I have to admit that I am a bit rusty when it comes to all of the formulas and properties. Even though I may not remember all of the formulas, I still consider my previous courses a success. I may not remember the exact formula, but I do remember that the formulas exist and it is just a matter of looking the formula up and plugging in the right numbers to get the correct...
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...Last semester was agonizing to me for math. I for one admit that math is not my strong suit and this was spoken about in the beginning. I really was seeking out majors that didn’t have math or not as much math in them. I know that math is essential to anything in life. I had a fear of math and have taken some in the past; failed and passed them the next go around. Failing was never a part of my plan. I take full responsibility for it. However, I feel that I was not really given much help from my Professor. I emailed and set up times with him and we never really had a conversation because for a while we played phone tag. I emailed him and let him know I was completely lost in his class as well. I saw early on that I was going to fail the class...
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...Career Narrative My career goals are still being developed. I am unsure as of right now what I would like to have as a career, which is a large portion of my life. What I do know is I would like to go to a somewhat local college and possibly have a job that deals with math. I have decided these goals because I would like to have a job that I enjoy doing, since it is a large part of my life. I would like to attend a more local college because I want to be able to continue to see my family. I want a job that deals with math because I succeed most in math and enjoy it the most out of the rest of my subjects. I am currently in college algebra this year and hope to take accounting next year. A math job would be good for me because I take interest...
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...I. Introduction This action research proposal focused on helping students cope with their math subjects. We will also discussed the possible reasons why students suffer from math phobia, math anxiety or arithmophobia, the cause and the possible result it gives to the students. First, let us give the definitions, descriptions, and symptoms of anxiety, Math anxiety and arithmophobia. Arithmophobia is simply defined as the fear of numbers. General Anxiety: * A feeling of unease, apprehension or worry. It may be associated with physical symptoms such as rapid heartbeat, feeling faint and trembling. It can be a normal reaction to stress or worry or it can sometimes be part of a bigger problem. * Anxiety is a complex combination of the feeling of fear, apprehension and worry often accompanied by physical sensations such as palpitations, chest pain and/or shortness of breath. Anxiety is often described as having cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. The cognitive component entails expectation of a diffuse and uncertain danger. Math Anxiety: * A feeling of intense frustration or helplessness about one's ability to do math. * Math anxiety is an emotional reaction to mathematics based on a past unpleasant experience which harms future learning. * An irrational fear of mathematics that can range from a simple discomfort associated with numerical operations to a total avoidance of mathematics and mathematics classes (Mathison, 1977). Mathematics...
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...“Life is not a spectator sport.” Throughout life we face many challenges and many barriers that will try to keep us from accomplishing what we want. There are multiple ways to address these challenges, and the solution to a problem is different for everybody. Jackie Robinson faced one of the toughest and most widespread barriers, the barrier of racism. He had to face racism whilst trying to achieve his life dream, which was to play on a Major League team. Robinson overcame his challenges through a set of nine values: citizenship, commitment, courage, determination, excellence, integrity, justice, persistence, and teamwork. These nine values have become something that anybody can live by and can use to overcome their own values. In my own life I...
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...day time dreams would come to reality, like the time I dreamed of becoming good in math, but some dreams are not meant to be and other could be way to far from our hands. Some when realized fulfill you of happiness and you just want to live in that moment. I believe that dreams are like a treasure to be search for and discovered. The first time I found myself chasing my dreams was when I was in the fifth grade. It all started by the middle of the last semester, we were learning long division, but my background in math was really bad. I was lucky to know how to add. I was never a good student, but it was difficult for me to concentrate and pay attention. During class I would picture myself being the best in every subject, especially math. I desired that dream to be true more than anything, so I decided to bring it to life. First I tried to concentrate, but it was difficult. Months passed and I kept struggling with long divisions. One day I was trying to solve a long division for my homework, I started to analyze the equation and ask myself questions about it, then I discovered how to solve them. At the end of the year I was awarded a diploma for my achievement in math. Ever since, I enjoyed solving math problems, now it is my best subject. Dreams not always go the way we want them to because we don't have control over unexpected situations. Even if dreams are not meant, you can always learn something from them. Like the time I save some money to buy a car...
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...Math was always the class that could never quite keep my attention in school. I was a daydreamer and a poor student and applying myself to it was pretty much out of the question. When I would pay some attention I would still forget the steps it had taken me to find the solution. So, when the next time came around I was lost. This probably came about because as a kid I wasn’t real fond of structure. I was more into abstract thought and didn’t think that life required much more than that at the time. I was not interested in things I had to write down and figure out step by step on a piece of paper. I figured I could be Tom Sawyer until about the age of seventy two. My thoughts didn’t need a rhyme or reason and didn’t need laws to keep them within any certain limits. The furthest I ever made it in school was Algebra II and I barely passed that. The reason wasn’t that I couldn’t understand math. It was more that I didn’t apply myself to the concepts of it, or the practice and study it took to get there. I was always more interested in other concepts. Concepts that were gathered by free thinkers, philosophers, idealists. Now I knew that a lot of those figures I read about tried their hand in the sciences, physics, and mathematics in their day, but I was more interested in their philosophical views on everyday life. It was not until I started reading on the subject of quantum physics and standard physics that I became interested in math. The fact that the laws of standard physics...
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...educational career. But, does taking that test really decide how smart you actually are. Eleven years of schooling and one of those tests will decide what college you go to and what you will do for the rest of your life. People have all different types of talents and these test favor the people who are good at school but, what about the kids who are good musicians or good athletes? Why should a test decide how smart they are when the activities that those kids are exceeding in, aren’t on...
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...Failing does not mean Unsatisfactory Failing is a word that many people would like to believe is not in their vocabulary. Failing in life is sometimes necessary in order to get things done the right way. As William Zinger says in his essay “College Pressures”, “What I wish for all students is some release from the clammy grip of the future. I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world.” I can relate personally to what William Zinger is saying because sometimes I wish I could just fail at things in order to think about the things that I would really...
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