Math

Math; the word itself brings chills down most people’s spines. This four letter word is synonymous with headaches and near tear convulsions in the classrooms and in testing rooms. Honestly, many people do not like math because it can be confusing and mentally demanding. Yet, the truth of the matter is math is a required subject and it is important in our everyday lives. How could you live a normal life if you couldn’t do simple mental math? For example, as an avid shopper, I often need to use math to estimate how much a sweater is if it is marked to be 45% off the original price. Then I would have to calculate to see if I have enough money to buy it and still have a sufficient amount left over. This would be impossible without knowing how to do math. Also, we would need to know how to count simple things as well. If not, how would we know how much of anything we would need? I am not advocating that every person needs to know calculus and trigonometry because in all honesty, they don’t. In our normal day to day lives, it would be highly unlikely that we would need to know how to find the derivative of a function. However, we should know basic math that includes algebra and perhaps algebra 2. Luckily, new technology has made knowing math easier for us. There are multiple phone apps that do all the work for you and you don’t have to strain your mind. However, it is inevitable that we know math.