Mathematics is scary for the majority of children but it doesn’t have to be like that if the parents/teachers know how to teach them. At the very first start, all children are fascinated by maths but end up fearing of it for different reasons wether they’re taught wrong or they’re not as fast in thinking as their classmates.
Parents need to make sure that they’re children should approach through playing this subject that’s complicated and wonderful.
For example all games that contain dices are perfect for helping children adding and subtract numbers. Children start learning about numbers, around the age of three year old and until they go to school, they need to learn how to utilise this concept in many ways if we want to be sure they get used to it. So, many activities which are inspired from different maths notes:
- Games with building. These evolve the capacity of visualisation in space and get them ready for different ways of thinking
- Puzzles, Rubik Cube or Lego. Any of these games that contain movements of rotation or appreciating the dimensions and different shapes helps the child to shape this experience in maths thinking.
- Our surrounding environment offers unlimited possibilities in using numbers. For example, our house numbers or shoe number without talking about stories like the Snow White and the seven Dwarfs.
- They can also learn a lot about shapes and weights from objects in our environment that’s why walking in the park is a good reason for the parents to help the little ones to understand that a ball is round and it rolls while a stick doesn’t or to understand that dad weights more than him. These ideas may seem funny but they really help setting the grounds for math thinking.
- Mazes, Sudoku or Chess improves logics, observation and the capacity of the children.
That’s why it’s important to learn your children the basics of maths while they’re still young.
A pupil that has high grades in college and high-school can easily turn into a lawyer or a very good medic. Geometry problems train the mind of a future CEO of a company.
Maths help the manager of a company in creating strategies for developing the company and it shapes the way of thinking. Maths can create a lot of schemes of thinking, for example when resolving a problem of synthetic geometry, basic geometry, you have a possibility and a conclusion and you’re thinking how to tie them up.
So, what can I do in resolving this geometry problem? I start and set some specific objectives. I choose my strategies carefully and start trying different ways.
According to the mathematician Louis Funar, researcher from the Fournier institute from France, maths finds itself in anything it means technological progress.
For mobile devices we need the Fourier transformation and Ondelette, deposing money at the bank needs algorithm of cryptography etc.
So, a part of maths is good when someone wants to turn on a carrier related to science or technology. Beyond real science, maths plays a shaping role.
Mathematics and mathematics thinking can be used for a specific reason to resolve problems in economy and social science. The precision is essential in debating on topics on which people have so strong arguments.
In maths, you learn how to resolve problems in a systematic way and not influenced by emotions.
As a qualified mathematician you have a lot of options for a career that will satisfy you in any way. If you have the ambition to solve the problems of the humanity, maths is crucial.
For example, if we’d know how to calculate protein folding, then we’d have an extraordinary tool to produce high-quality medication with dramatic effects for the whole humanity. Protein folding is a math problem waiting to be solved and which ironically the nature has solved a long time ago since it created life.
As a fun fact, frustrated by our inability to calculate protein folding with the calculator, scientists from the University of Washington have created a computer game from which they recruited thousands of players in order to calculate protein folding.
People have shown better results than the computers and they’ve actually discovered a new about the virus that produces AIDS.
Deep Blue program has beaten the chess champion in 1997 and recently, Watson program has beaten the champions of Jeopardy. It’s time for an ambitious mathematician to resolve the problem of protein folding and to beat nature and the champions from the game Fold-It.
To enter the world of fascinating reality, 10 years ago the company Netflix which we all heard of had the following problem : Which movies to recommend to the clients?
At that time, the company was renting dvds and wanting to rent to the customers movies based on movies that other customers enjoyed with the same tastes.
Netflix had a private algorithm but not very good, and launched a competition with the prize of 1 million dollars for who succeeds in improving their algorithm by 10%. After many years, a team of mathematicians and programmers have won the prize.
The fun part is that the idea which lead to the new algorithm is an easy math equation. It breaks apart a big matrix in a product of two matrixes with a lower rang. If decomposition in factors brings 1 million dollars plus glory and fame, makes millions of people happy which see interesting movies, mathematic deserves a little bit of attention, right?
Google has made a fortune starting from the algorithm PageRank to order the results from the search engines, which is an easy and direct app of the theory Perron-Frobenius. All transactions are based on the algorithm RSA invented in the 70’ and which is a simple app of the theory of Fermat-Euler.
Conclusion, today if you know maths outside out, you can conquer the world.
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