Hi steemit community!
I want to share something with you many people and especially school student hate with passion - Math.
We all underestimate the power of it, school education tends to simplify it into forms of:
Math A - simple math, you learn how to calculate basics stuff: what's required to build house in terms of area and perimeter; how to do your banking, often using pre existing simplified formulas and so on.
Math B - here you learn something somehow more complicated, you go into integrals and derivates as well as more complex geometry that is basically a visual representation of what you derived with integrals and derivates. Also touch on pi etc
Math C - it concentrates on more complex forms of integrals and derivates as well as matrices, golden ratio, imaginary numbers and it's implications
But why is it actually important? Or is it important at all? Please let me know in comments what you think while I'll go ahead and explain my view on it!
Being a somewhere in 3rd year of my engineering studies I cannot ignore it. It's everywhere and is getting more and more complex. Upart from math course we learn math that is specifically relevant to electronics, computing, mechanics and variations of them, such as fluid mechanics, programming, electromagnetism to name a few... while it's all interesting and quite hard I learned to appreciate the beauty of it, as eventually most of it can be brought down to similar formulas that are solvable... well relatively simple.
But here I would like to stop and go back to the debate whether math is actually important for everyday person? For someone who doesn't need to know how to calculate the current in a circuit? Someone who is not concerned so much of a durability of a small project, it can always be fixed by trial and error, right? Or even googled and followed by the outline. Or for those who are housewives and their duties only require basic financial calculation or usage of proportions which is more of chemistry rather then math?
When you look from this perspective, wouldn't say so.
But consider this: what if everyone did know math - trust me I wouldn't wish that upon you while finishing my math assignment unless I saw something beautiful that can come out of it - what then?
Once again let me know your thoughts in comments and I'll go ahead and tell you mine
Then... possibilities are different. Math is not only useful for calculating the stresses and strains in the bridges, it changes one's way of thinking. No I'm not saying that math represents world even though it is close to it, but it teachers you about assumptions, approaching the situation differently and generally think outside the box, it teaches you all those skills through pain of remembering and applying different laws.
So lets assume that everyone knows Math, everyone understands it. Will we be sold a product that life expectancy is short? Or product that is overpriced for the components? Will our structures and machines be stronger and last longer? Maybe we will even be smart enough to understand banking system and how it works against us. The possibilities... do they worth the efford? Russian government thinks so by keeping math quite hard for all year levels and from what I know still teaching compolsary math until 1st year of uni accross all disciplines on a high level of understanding.
In conclusion I'd like to say that I think Math's importance is misunderstood and as hard as it could be it is worth it... perhaps I'm just motivating myself.
Thank you for listening!
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