The Things You Use Math For

     These are the ways you can use math in your day-to-day life! Math helps you build. Ask any contractor or construction worker and they will tell you just how important math is when it comes to building anything. Creating something that will last and add value to your home out of raw materials requires a broad range of mathematics. Figuring the total amount of bags of concrete needed for a slab, accurately measuring lengths, widths, and angles, and estimating project costs are just a few of the many cases in which math is necessary in real life home improvement projects. Some students may say they do not plan on working in construction and this may be true, but many will own a home at some point in their life. Having the ability to do minor home improvements will save a lot of money. Armed with math, they will also have the ability to check the work and project estimates, ensuring they are getting the best value. Another way you use math in your day-to-day life is baking! Cooking and baking are sciences all their own and can be some of the best ways of introducing children to mathematics. After all, recipes are really just mathematical algorithms or step-by-step sets of operations to be performed. measuring ingredients to follow a recipe, multiplying and dividing fractions to account for more or less than a single batch, converting a recipe from Celsius to Fahrenheit, converting a recipe from metric to US standard units (teaspoon, tablespoon, cups), calculating cooking time per each item and adjusting accordingly, calculating pounds per hour of required cooking time, understanding ratios and proportions, particularly in baking. Cooking is something everyone does and everyone uses math at some point doing it! People also use math while shopping for groceries. Calculating price per unit, weighing produce, figuring percentage discounts, and estimating the final price are ways people use math while shopping. Another way people use math in their day-to-day life is when gardening. Even doing something as mundane as gardening requires basic math skills. If you need to plant or sow new seeds or seedlings you need to make a row or count them out or even make holes. So even without thinking you are doing math. Measuring skills are always needed, and calculations are vital when doing something new in the garden. The final thing (but not the last thing you use math for) is everyday activities. Every outing you plan uses math. Whether you go to the beach or to the zoo. You have to plan your way there use your time wisely, math is your guide that will assist you and help you. When driving you need fuel, oil and water, without it your car will break down. All of these require math.