Why is Math important in our lives? My daughter ask me this question because she's not very good in math.
66Logic and Problem Solving
Basically, math is taught in order to develop our problem-solving skills. Math teaches skills such as logic, deduction, evaluation and patience. The better one is a math the more they are able to solve complex real life problems. Besides learning about money, time, and measurements math skills are used a person's entire life. Tell your daughter to stick with it because girls really can be good a math. The key for kids who struggle is to keep the problems simple. It has been explained to me during my teaching classes that the four functions never change, just their order and the numbers. The order of operations is essential to memorize, as well as functions. But, basically, one is only adding, subtracting, multiplying (which is rapid addition) or dividing (rapid subtraction). If you need some math help feel free to contact me at mrsbillingsley@gmail.com, I have some alternative math lessons that can help even the most confused student. God Bless.
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Thank you so much for your post and for helping students with math. I am taking yet another math class to finish my degree. I process information visually and it took a teacher drawing and coloring circles for me to see the patterns. Looking at symbols is the equivalent of looking at the Cyrillic alphabet. The rote memorization of my younger math years has not proven to be beneficial and has served to be more of a hindrance. There has to be more than one way to learn math.
Puzzles, creative mind-mapping and drawing are helpful. I was wondering something though. How does math make one able to solve complex real life problems? Is there something that is happening in the math brain that does not happen in others? Always wondered this. It's a fascinating subject.
The best math teachers understood how to use math to tell a story. Keep up your good work!
AprilJune says:
13 months ago
There are a lot of students who struggle with math. Thank you for doing what you can to help!