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Is Math Worth the Sacrifice
By Robert Duval
Category: Education
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Ever since mankind has existed, people complain for the need of learning math. I'll never use it in the practical world. My desire is to be a fireman or a cowboy or a news reporter and they will never need to know what a number is. Today, with the common use of electronic devices and even calculators on the cell phones which are skillfully operated by young children, it's a better question than ever before. Why should a person put effort in the formulas and memorize the times tables they learn in class Why would you want to take any effort in working with formulas, and even worse, memorizing them, when the same result can be achieved with a calculator a zillion times faster? It seems like a valid concern, and it turns out that students ask it all the time The answer to this question has some complexity, which goes a bit further the evident. No one likes to memorize facts; however starting with basics is the start of most fields of learning. It is a possibility that showing math in a different way, though, could radically improve the understanding of why we study math. Among the reasons why the study of math is necessary is that it creates the need for students to read and comprehend, which also pushes them to learn how to organize their cognitive processes and to see depth in more challenging problems. The formulas by themselves won’t help to fully comprehend how to apply a formula. In order to master that ability, the students need to train their brains in order to recognize patterns and elements that will allow them to associate knowledge and to gain understanding. This new found understanding, obtained from the practice in figuring out the parameters in a math problem also contributes in other fields of study.
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