Math is very important in everyday life, more necessary than some may think. I often hear students complaining about how they do not think they will ever need to know any of the things they are learning in math class and how it is a waste of their time. It is more relevant to your life than you may think. Whether you are baking a cake with a recipe or deciding how long it will take for you to drive to your friend’s house, math is hidden in daily tasks and often goes unnoticed, but not unused.Trying to decide how much your lunch will cost? Math.
Setting an alarm in the morning to have enough time to drive to school? Math.
Many basics everyday activities depend on math and would be very difficult to figure out without it. Some people have the false impression that only complex jobs like engineering and accounting rely on math, however, a lot of different jobs include math. At least every employee has to know some math to understand their salary, wages, and hours, even when working at a job that seems completely unrelated to math. It is easy to overlook the necessity of math in our everyday lives because it becomes a habit, however in order to form these habits, everyone needs some extent of math knowledge to make these daily tasks involving math second nature.
Math is also important in other subjects and can be helpful to understanding things in science, English, and even the arts. There are many numbers and calculations involved in different sciences, like chemistry and physics. Studying the movement of objects, chemical reactions, or reading charts, graphs, and data all require one to know some math concepts. In English, poetry has a meter, or beat, and a certain number of lines, stanzas, or syllables that is easier to understand with knowledge of math.
Many students think that their high school math class is a waste of time and that since they are going into a career as a history teacher or a writer, whatever the case may be, that they do not need to pay attention or care about math. Of course, it is not necessary that everyone be as ecstatic about math as I am and wake up loving it every day, but everyone should be willing to learn it to an extent because of how much it is used in everyone’s life, regardless of careers. Knowing at least some basic math concepts is very helpful to have a simpler, easier life. Having to pull out a calculator every single time you go to the store and wonder how much change you will get can get annoying and time consuming and it is just easier and faster with a basic concept of math.