Math Is Everywhere

Many students always ask, "Why do we need to know this?" Well even though at the time that many students are learning the math that they are whether they are in elementary school, middle school , high school , or college they do not understand the true value of the information they will one day look back and understand. Math is everywhere. Math is in the change you get back from the clerk at the store. Math is the number of innings in a baseball game based on how many outs there are. Math is in the way your car runs or the way your house was built. Math plays a very important and large role in the lives of many individuals. Many careers focus on mathematics in order to succeed and benefit us and our living conditions. Construction workers, chemists, pharmacists, car mechanics, chefs, bakers, pastry chefs, and computer technicians are just a few examples of careers that many choose to go into that use math every day in order to do their job. I wish to be a math teacher in order to help students understand why exactly we do need math and why it is so important to begin learning mathematics at such a young age. Mathematics is just as important as language is to many individuals. In fact, mathematics is in some senses a language that needs to be learned in order to sufficiently communicate amongst people. Imagine if nobody in the world new any sort of mathematics and wanted to build a house, drive a car, bake a cake, make a boat, fly an airplane, or even play a sport. None of these would exists without mathematics. Mathematics goes as far back as the caveman and the Romans. Today it is not normally used but we do occasionally see the Roman Numeral System used in novels. Even the individuals in older civilizations knew that a counting system or numeric system would be needed in order to keep order and conduct amongst their people. Today we see the same thing amongst our people whether it is with speed limits, how much something costs, or the time. I have always wondered myself why students do not recognize why exactly they need to learn and understand math well. Many would think if you were to look around your everyday life style you would be able to recognize that math is everywhere you look. Without math in our lives our people would be disorderly and life would be chaotic. Nothing would get done well enough to be functional without the use of math and our technology would not be nearly as advanced as it is in today's world. Look around you before you ask, "Why do we need to know this?"; or say, "I am never going to use this again in my life." Math is everywhere and without it we may as well not even exist.