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Why Mathematics really does matter By: Karen Jacobsen Ask a group of your friends, and you’ll get a lot of negative answers and hatred for mathematics. In fact, even if you talk to a few adults, I bet at least one of them will tell you something like “I don’t know why I learnt Trigonometry at school; I’ve never had to use it”. But here’s the thing you need to realize about mathematics…
10 reasons why mathematics matters 1. mathematics helps develop essential problem-solving skills: Because you’re constantly dealing with tricky topics and problems, mathematics helps you develop better reasoning abilities than just about any other school subject you take. Having good reasoning skills means you have the ability to think logically about a situation – something the business world really values.
2. You can’t go anywhere without running into mathematics We live in a mathematically-driven world. Why? Mathematics is all around you and knowing mathematics can help you Because not only does it teach you critical understand the world better. Don’t believe skills you’ll need to survive in the world but me... Just look around you. You can’t go NOT doing pure mathematics can also put serious brakes on your earning potential once anywhere without running into some related to mathematics. Bees, for example, are you enter the world of work. masters of geometry. You only need to look at their beehives to see that. Or how about the So if you’re struggling with the decision fact that the Fibonacci sequence (look it up between taking mathematics or taking math if you’re not sure what this is) lies at the very literacy listen up. Today we’re sharing… heart of the designs of seashells, pinecones, flowers, trees and more; while Pi is found It really DOES matter.
