The use of mathematics in our daily life
The development of mathematics came from the development of human civilization. Stone-age people started to count their own animals and members of their community; afterward people used mathematics to get information about time, distance, numbers of people, etc.
Mathematics, an art of creative thinking, organizes the collection of logic, facts, theory, and methods. It includes the study of patterns, but for the common people, mathematics is only numbers and their operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). These operations are used in their daily activities, but arithmetic is a part of whole mathematics. According to mathematicians, mathematics can’t be defined in a single sentence. It has two parts: one is pure mathematics, and the other is applied mathematics. The purpose of pure mathematics is to find new ideas and develop new techniques and logic in the field of mathematics. In contrast, applied mathematics uses mathematical developmental knowledge, skill, fact, and theory in daily life and makes it easy and effective. All people use mathematics, but they can’t understand it from a mathematical viewpoint. The concept of geometry, such as area and volume, started in Babylonian civilization. The pyramid of Egypt was developed from the viewpoint of engineering. The pioneer Euclid’s geometry was synthesized with an amalgamation of scientific thinking, mathematical concepts, and eclectic views and experiences.
In Nepal, mathematical knowledge has been used while constructing different temples, palaces, natural sources of drinking water supply, etc. Architecture, making shapes on stone to form statues, and forming jewelry are not only examples of the use of mathematics, but also shaping the structure of plows, mattocks, harrows, sickles, baskets, butter churners, and the size of the rope used in churners are some of the uses of mathematics in everyday life. Technical knowledge of mathematics is essential to designing clay, pebbles, bamboo crafts, etc. In economic and financial debt, mathematics plays a dominant role. To be specific, making clear information about profit, discount, and interest is not only the use of mathematics but also to make a portfolio of different financial and nonfinancial agencies; its dominant role goes on.
Mathematics is used in the common sense for the sake of marketing. Selling and buying become paralyzed in the absence of mathematics. To make the calculation easy, illiterate people in the rural countryside base twenty systems, i.e., one twenty and five for twenty-five; it is common to count more than twenty. A great question raised here for all teachers, students, workers, politicians, actors, officers, and businessmen is: Is it possible to think about life without mathematics? No, it isn’t. The study of mathematics helps to shape a disciplinarian and creative potential, solve mathematical problems, and use logical ideas in any situation among students.
Thus, human society and mathematics have an inseparable relationship, as, like the two wheels of the same cart, no one can raise a question or doubt the use of mathematics. Learners may not only spend a lot of time learning mathematics but may also go in the wrong direction. To make learning mathematics effective and meaningful, here are some useful tips that we all should be aware of and apply in our everyday lives.
Don’t have books open or pencil in hand while listening to discussion in class
pays it undivided attention.
- Draw diagrams and sketches wherever possible. They are often helpful in understanding and solving problems.
- Lay special stress on the application of rules and formulae to fix them permanently in your mind.
- In numerical problems, the habit of making preliminary estimates serves as a rough check-up on your answer.
- Form the habit of expressing verbal statements as symbols.
- Do memorize important rules, formulae, and facts, but only after understanding.
- Be mentally alert, aggressive, and confident.
- A problem is generally made up of a series of steps, one step at a time.
- Working carefully for mistakes can be more easily avoided than detached and corrected.
- Don’t lose hope; at least try to find out what your real difficulty is.
- Read the problem carefully and grasp its meaning.
- Work at your maximum speed.
