Short Essay: The Role Of Mathematics In Everyday Life

Mathematics is the knowledge that deals with the logic of shape, quantity and arrangement. It is what we do in our everyday live which includes mobile devices, art, money, engineering, and even sports. In other words, we can say that we cannot deal with the world without mathematics because what we do in real lives involves the using of calculations and even using of numbers. Maths helps us to count; it also helps us to measure things, and so on. Since the beginning of recorded history, mathematic discovery has been at the forefront of every civilized society, and in use in even the most primitive of cultures. The needs of math arose based on the wants of society. The more complex a society, the more complex the mathematical needs. Primitive

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) stated that "as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." These mathematicians discover about algebras, geometries, calculus, number patterns, and many others including word problems. For the past few years researchers have found out that most primary school students prefer doing mathematical notation rather than word problems. Word problem is any mathematical exercise where significant background information on the problem is presented as text rather than in mathematical notation. In math, a problem is presented as text, usually in scenario (narrative or story) with varying number of sentences. For example, “A salesman sold twice as much pear in the afternoon than in the morning. If he sold 360 kilograms of pears that day, how many kilograms did he sell in the morning and how many in the afternoon?” This is where students needed to develop their sense of thinking and also their sense of curiosity in order to decode or understand not only the word problem given about but also all the different types of problems. Examples of word problems can be found dating back to Babylonian