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Date Posted: 15:23:12 03/22/99 Mon
Author: Bobby
Subject: Mathematics and its importance in life and careers

Mathematics can be used in many different aspects of life. Math is used in all fields and is considered by some to be the most important subject there is. It is used when you're going to the grocery store or when you're planning something important like how much of each ingredient you need to make a particular dish. For instance, let's take the trip to the grocery store. Let's say that you want to buy some soda and chips, but you weren't sure if you have enough cash on hand to buy what you want. You'd have to use your math skills to decide whether or not you'd have to go to the bank.
In the other example, the amount of ingredients that you use to make a dish must be precise. For instance, let's pretend that you needed 1.5 teaspoons of salt in your meal and you put 3 instead. The dish could come out tasting too salty. On the other hand, if you put too little the dish would come out tasting bland.
Another example of when mathematics is used in a career is when you are a math teacher. Think about it, when you are a math teacher you have to know math. Otherwise you'd be out of a job and out on the street.
When you do something like operate a crane at a construction site, you don't really see the connection between that field and math. But the connection is there. The shapes that you see, the shape of the hook, the beam that is being transported, the levers that you are using, are all a part of geometry, the study of shapes and that kind of thing.
The same thing applies to when you're writing a story for a newspaper. The connection here is that you are given a limit to the story's length limit and you have to get as close to that deadline as possible without exceeding it and still getting the point across. To do so, you have to proportionize the story while still getting the important facts into it. Proportion is a study of math, being the connection.
When you're a firefighter on the job you probably have to save people from the high-up windows of burning buildings. Now you just can't raise the ladder to a random height and try to save the person, because that won't work. The proper way to do it is to calculate the height of the window and the distance from the fire truck/ladder to the window. That will save time and help save more lives.
Here's one that we rising 9th graders will probably face. We have to get in a required number of credits per school year, leading up to a final total required to graduate. Now to get that you have to have a certain number of credits for each field. To figure that out you have to use math skills.
I have one last example, and it's a difficult one. What if you're a security guard? You see, security guards usually stay in the surveilance room, but they make a round of the premises periodically. Now they do that according to a certain schedule every day. Scheduling is also a part of math because in this example you have to make a certain number of rounds at certain times with equal intervals in between.
So, as you can see, mathematics is used in many areas of life, as well as careers. You may not see it at first, but if you look hard enough you'll find it eventually. If you don't have math skills you can't get anywhere in life.

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