How People Writing in Math
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From broad universe to tiny atom, math was everywhere. Math was a language for describing the world for a long time. People were producing more and more new theories. If others wanted to use them, they have to understand them first. One way to make readers understand new knowledge was by making connection between new math knowledge along with human senses or their old knowledge.
“Mathematics Gives You Wings (Gerritsen)” This was a lecture made by Dr. Margot Gerritsen in Stanford in 2010. In this video, Dr. Gerritsen showed that how math to understand new math equations. Actually, math was not boring or annoying or complicated as people usually thought. Math was amazing. To show these ideas, Dr.
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First, Math could link so many different thing together just by some letters. By recalling that water, oil, wind, as long as the matter was fluid, it was governed by the equation (Gerritsen). This showed the generalization of math. Second, math was in our life. She exemplified this with application of her own experience on building models of a ship for a sailing race (Gerritsen). This connected the equation and the real life. Last but not the least, math play the nature as a magic show. Remember the equation was used to describe how fluid moves in the space, including the wind? Wind was invisible. But because the audience understood the equation, they could describe the wind. This made invisible things visible. All three points showed how amazing the math …show more content…
To answer that, I made an interview with my math professor. Dr. Volberg had been my math teacher for one year and he was highly respected and honored. In the interview with Dr.Volberg, I realized that math writing was more complicated than other discipline. Math theories were abstract. Therefore writers need to take some examples sometimes (Volberg). People would start with some similar and easier theory, and use the paper to build the new one on their own. That was the reason why even math mathematician hate reading math proof (Yu,). This showed math writers were using connection to help audience understand their
Math is everywhere when most people first think of math or the word “Algebra,” they don’t get too excited. Many people say “Math sucks” or , “When are we ever going to use it in our lives.” The fact is math will be used in our lives quite frequently. For example, if we go watch a softball game all it is, is one giant math problem. Softball math can be used in many
In historic times; math was well known for helping Egyptian people keep track of their property, money, taxes, livestock, land and sometimes people. Math did indeed help the Egyptian community and their king by building pyramids, tombs, art crafts, and using math to solve the flood on Nile Valley. Egypt was striving for a new era to come along with their mathematical achievement.
Burton, David. M. (2010). The History of Mathematics: An Introduction, Seventh Edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
In the article “how to fall in love with math”, the author Manil Suri is trying to convey how beautiful math truly is. He explains how each time someone says “do the math”, they are often referring to something unexciting such as addition or multiplication. “Many people identify mathematics with just one element: arithmetic”. Most people fail to realize that there is more about mathematics. He states that mathematics is about ideas, ideas that inform our universe and that permeate our universe and beyond, that can surprise and enthrall. Math is an art just like music or panting and we should appreciate it. Suri wants to show that with math, you reach beyond the sky, stars, or the edges of the universe.
Mathematics has become a very large part of society today. From the moment children learn the basic principles of math to the day those children become working members of society, everyone has used mathematics at one point in their life. The crucial time for learning mathematics is during the childhood years when the concepts and principles of mathematics can be processed more easily. However, this time in life is also when the point in a person’s life where information has to be broken down to the very basics, as children don’t have an advanced capacity to understand as adults do. Mathematics, an essential subject, must be taught in such a way that children can understand and remember.
Math is not a scary thing. It can be fun and highly useful. In researching adult learners who return to college, I found a quote by Einstein saying (2015), “Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater.” In Einstein’s humility, it was heartening to know we all have our weaknesses. It was even more hopeful knowing his historical mathematical strengths. According to Erskine (2015), “While the overwhelming majority of Americans, 93 percent, agree that strong math skills are essential to being successful in life, nearly a third say they would rather clean the bathroom than solve a math problem.” We all know how socially acceptable and funny it is to be bad at math. Although Erskine stated it too, she is right. However, I feel the tide is turning. It is becoming increasingly acceptable to improve oneself. I am looking forward to using the EdReady program for my Algebra, Calculus and Trigonometry skills. In bringing this essay to a close, there is always a practical and approachable way to have better math comprehension. Math does not have to be scary. This is my math life
I also learned that mathematics was more than merely an intellectual activity: it was a necessary tool for getting a grip on all sorts of problems in science and engineering. Without mathematics there is no progress. However, mathematics could also show its nasty face during periods in which problems that seemed so simple at first sight refused to be solved for a long time. Every math student will recognize these periods of frustration and helplessness.
Mathematics is everywhere we look, so many things we encounter in our everyday lives have some form of mathematics involved. Mathematics the language of understanding the natural world (Tony Chan, 2009) and is useful to understand the world around us. The Oxford Dictionary defines mathematics as ‘the science of space, number, quantity, and arrangement, whose methods, involve logical reasoning and use of symbolic notation, and which includes geometry, arithmetic, algebra, and analysis of mathematical operations or calculations (Soanes et al, Concise Oxford Dictionary,
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...re encompassing way, it becomes very clear that everything that we do or encounter in life can be in some way associated with math. Whether it be writing a paper, debating a controversial topic, playing Temple Run, buying Christmas presents, checking final grades on PeopleSoft, packing to go home, or cutting paper snowflakes to decorate the house, many of our daily activities encompass math. What has surprised me the most is that I do not feel that I have been seeking out these relationships between math and other areas of my life, rather the connections just seem more visible to me now that I have a greater appreciation and understanding for the subject. Math is necessary. Math is powerful. Math is important. Math is influential. Math is surprising. Math is found in unexpected places. Math is found in my worldview. Math is everywhere. Math is Beautiful.
Towers, J., Martin, L., & Pirie, S. (2000). Growing mathematical understanding: Layered observations. In M.L. Fernandez (Ed.), Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Tucson, AZ, 225-230.
A somewhat underused strategy for teaching mathematics is that of guided discovery. With this strategy, the student arrives at an understanding of a new mathematical concept on his or her own. An activity is given in which "students sequentially uncover layers of mathematical information one step at a time and learn new mathematics" (Gerver & Sgroi, 2003). This way, instead of simply being told the procedure for solving a problem, the student can develop the steps mainly on his own with only a little guidance from the teacher.
Burton, D. (2011). The History of Mathematics: An Introduction. (Seventh Ed.) New York, NY. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The history of math has become an important study, from ancient to modern times it has been fundamental to advances in science, engineering, and philosophy. Mathematics started with counting. In Babylonia mathematics developed from 2000B.C. A place value notation system had evolved over a lengthy time with a number base of 60. Number problems were studied from at least 1700B.C. Systems of linear equations were studied in the context of solving number problems.
As mathematics has progressed, more and more relationships have ... ... middle of paper ... ... that fit those rules, which includes inventing additional rules and finding new connections between old rules. In conclusion, the nature of mathematics is very unique and as we have seen in can we applied everywhere in world. For example how do our street light work with mathematical instructions? Our daily life is full of mathematics, which also has many connections to nature.