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Every Students Should LOVE Mathematics Introduction Life is a math

equation. In order to gain the most, you must know how to convert
negatives into positives.
— Anonymous Many students consider mathematics as a hard subject
(Negative) that is the reason why they hate it. But, for us to gain the most,
we should love mathematics, by seeing its different features that makes
the subject mathematics more interesting. We can convert our negativity
about mathematics by some ways that can help every student to love it.
Learn to love it and love to learn numbers, equations, and computations
and removing any fear to solve. My Case Mathematics makes our life
orderly and prevents chaos. Certain qualities that are nurtured by
mathematics are power of reasoning, creativity, abstract or spatial
thinking, critical thinking, problem-solving ability and even effective
communication skills. Mathematics as an expression of the human mind
reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for
aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis
and construction, generality and individuality. Math helps us have better
problem-solving skills. Math helps us think analytically and have better
reasoning abilities. Analytical thinking refers to the ability to think critically
about the world around us. Reasoning is our ability to think logically about
a situation. Analytical and reasoning skills are important because they
help us solve problems and look for solutions. The skills that you use in
framing the problem, identifying the knowns and unknowns, and taking
steps to solve the problem can be a very important strategy that can be
applied to other problems in life. Math uses critical thinking and builds
problem-solving skills. Learning to look at a problem—whether a math
problem or a life problem—and come up with a plan is an important skill to
practice. Math is all around us and helps us understand the world better.
To live in a mathematically driven world and not know math is like walking
through an art museum with your eyes closed. Learning and appreciating
math can help you appreciate things that you would not otherwise notice
about the world. In reality, Math is everywhere! Don’t believe me? Read
on for some examples of math in nature. Bees, masters of geometry, use
hexagons to build their honeycombs. The Fibonacci sequence, a famous
sequence of numbers in mathematics, is found throughout nature: in
pinecones, seashells, trees, flowers, and leaves. Math can make you
more popular. Before you start to disagree with me, think about how great
it is to go to dinner with a friend who can quickly divide a check in their
mind to determine how much each person needs to pay to split the bill.
Your knowledge of fractions can also help you divide a pizza among a few
people. While math is popularly the realm of nerds, your ability to avoid
awkward confusion and silence as you and your friends try to divide a
pizza or a dinner bill is truly a valuable skill. Be known as the cool (yes, I
said cool) person that knows how to do mental math quickly! Math can
help you shop a good sale. Not only will your quick mental arithmetic skills
help you become known as the smart person who everyone appreciates
when the waiter brings the check to your table, your math skills can also
help you shop. Knowledge of percentages and how to calculate them
quickly can help you save time when shopping at a sale at the mall – for
example, to quickly calculate a discounted price, or to determine whether
you’ve been correctly charged when paying for a shirt at the store. You
don’t need a Ph.D. in math to develop some quick mental arithmetic skills;
they can help you in these and other areas of your life in the long run. Tip:
use the 10 rule while sale-shopping. If you want to brush up on your math
skills to be a better bargain-hunter, remember this rule: to subtract 10 from
a price, you can just move the decimal place to the left by one digit. Take,
for example, a shirt that has a price of Php 25.00 and is on sale for an
additional 20 off. You can move the decimal over to the left by one digit to
calculate 10 off – Php 2.50. Since 20 off is 2 x 10 off, you can quickly
multiply Php 2.50 x 2 to get the discount amount – Php 5.00. Subtract the
discount amount from the original price of the shirt: Php 25.00 – Php 5.00
= Php 20.00. You can use the 10 rule to quickly calculate 10 of the price
and multiply it by a factor that can help you estimate price discounts
quickly. Math skills can be pretty helpful! Math is the universal language.
Sure, it’s mostly equations, numbers, and some Greek letters, but math is
understood the same virtually all over the world (and who knows, maybe
all over the universe)! A math equation doesn’t need to be translated to
another language to be understood by someone on the other side of the
planet. A mathematical law doesn’t change because someone has a
different religion than

A math equation doesn’t need to be translated to another language to be

understood by someone on the other side of the planet. A mathematical
law doesn’t change because someone has a different religion than you or
speaks a different language from you. 2 + 2 = 4 in every single place on
planet Earth. Pretty cool! The universality of math is one of the many
things that makes it such a powerful tool and, indeed, essential life skill.
Math can save you money. How much would that new rubber shoes be if
there is a 20% off sale? Is it better to get the big box of cereal or the little
one on sale? If you count up all the coins in your piggy bank can you buy
a phone? You use math to figure it out. Like patterns? Like math. Have
you ever noticed how shapes fit together, the spirals in a sea shell, and
the details of a snowflake? This is math in action. You can make
predictions based on patterns you see. Fun! Math encourages curiosity
and questions. You may think of math as looking for the answer to a
problem in a book or on a worksheet, but math really starts with wondering
or asking a question. Helping students to start by wondering builds interest
and motivation. Math is black and white. Some people like math because
it seems more black and white than other subjects. The answer is right, or
it isn’t. Math is play for your brain. Your body needs exercise and your
brain does too. Think of math as running around at recess for your brain.
Enjoy puzzles? Math’s for you. Logic puzzles, finding the solution to a
Rubik’s cube, and any other number of puzzles use math. Help students
see that math is more than numbers on a page. Finding the answer is
satisfying. Math problems aren’t easy to solve but finding the answer can
be very satisfying. Remind students that some problems are easier than
others, and part of the fun is figuring it out. Bring a sense of curiosity and
adventure to math class. Building, sewing and other hands-on activities
use math. How much wood do you need to build a bookcase? Do you
need another box of tiles to finish the mosaic table? Do you have enough
fabric to make this bag? How can we use our paper most efficiently if we
need to cut out 12 circles? Measuring, area, volume . . . math shows up in
many projects that we do. If you do creative projects, show them the math
that is involved. Math is a journey. Too often we think of math as an
answer to get to. When a paper gets turned back with red correct marks or
wrong Xs, students lose sight of that journey. Understanding that the
destination (the answer) is important, but so is the journey (how you think
about and solve a problem) for building a love of math. Where will math
take you? Use math to create art. Let students play with pattern blocks or
use compasses and rulers to create art. Explore spirals and symmetry.
You can dig into mathematical concepts like angle measurement or
Fibonacci sequence or encourage kids to notice things about their work
and others. Math is about wondering and asking questions. Some people
enjoy the mental exercise of working through problem after problem.
Others want calculators or computers to do the work for them. Either way,
it starts with a question or a wondering. Sometimes when practicing many
problem sets to get a process down (adding fractions or doing long
division) students forget why they are doing it. Use student generated
questions and wonderings to build problems for solving. Talk about
problem sets like piano scales or drills in sports. Math is useful in
everyday life. “When will I ever use this?” is a question that comes up
often in math class. Brainstorm with your class ways you use math every
day. I’ve given some examples for shopping and creating. Other ideas to
get you started: Use math to decide if you have enough of a particular
item for everyone in class or to decide if you have enough time to play a
game. Use math to figure out how many days of school before break or to
add up a score in a game. Post your list in your class—and add to it as
new things come up! Math is fun. Math is fun! It has different ways to
make it fun. One of my favorite ways to show that math is fun is to use
math games regularly.
Opposition Their main reasons for hating mathematics were difficulty in
understanding the subject, poor instruction and demand of more time to
grasp, but even after which they easily forget what is learnt. Difficult to
understand. You can take lots of approaches to math. Even if math has a
“right” answer, there are lots of ways to get to it. Teaching students
different approaches gives them tools to solve different problems, helps
them understand concepts, and lets them choose an approach that makes
the most sense to them. Just because we can’t find a solution, it doesn’t
mean there isn’t one. Poor instruction. Why do children dread
mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as
a subject. Teacher-student interaction will help you differentiate
instruction. Ask teachers to compare and contrast different approaches,
and then summarize their responses for them. Students should
understand what works and does not work (and why); which methods are
more efficient; and how models differ. It is critical that teachers elicit,
value, and celebrate approaches that are different but nonetheless arrive
at the correct solution. Students can use pictures, diagrams, charts,
expressions, and equations as part of the problem-solving process.
Discuss with them how their picture, diagram, chart, expression, or
equation relates to the situation in the problem. Ask them to explain why
they chose it and why they think it is a good mathematical expression to
use for the problem they are tackling. Demand of more time to grasp.
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It’s not a boring place to be, the
mathematical world. It’s an extraordinary place; it’s worth spending time
there. The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated, but
to make complicated things simple. If the time is your problem, no
problem, every equations and formulas have different shortcuts that an
help you to make your computation becomes shorter and easy to get.

Proof Learning math is good for your brain. Research conducted by Dr.
Tanya Evans of Stanford University indicates that children who know math
are able to recruit certain brain regions more reliably, and have greater
gray matter volume in those regions, than those who perform more poorly
in math. The brain regions involved in higher math skills in high-performing
children were associated with various cognitive tasks involving visual
attention and decision-making. While correlation may not imply causation,
this study indicates that the same brain regions that help you do math are
recruited in decision-making and attentional processes. Math helps you
tell time. A recent study indicated that 4 out of 5 children living in
Oklahoma City cannot read the hands on an analog clock to tell time.
Knowing math, and particularly, fractions, can help you better tell time.
While analog clocks may eventually become obsolete, don’t let your ability
to tell time become outdated! Use your knowledge of fractions to help you
tell time on analog clocks that have an hour, minute, and (sometimes)
second hand. As Alan Smith said, “there are two kinds of people: those
people that are comfortable with numbers, that can do numbers, and the
people who can't,” and finding inspiration in mathematics is not reserved
for those who are great at the execution of such. Even those who struggle
with learning the equations and memorizing formulas can find beauty
within what the numbers and mathematical reasoning can uncover. Math
is a way to learn more about our world and be able to prove those things
as well and has been for thousands of years. Through mathematics, we
were able to prove such things as how large the Earth really is, that the
universe is made up of atoms, create algorithms that we use in our
everyday lives and even learn why objects have mass, and that’s
awesome! Not even to mention that, with the new movie Hidden Figures
that just came out, we even relied on clever mathematics, among other
fields, so get a man into space and eventually to the moon! How is that not
incredibly inspiring. Through the use of Mathematics, we are able to
answer questions and look at the world through a different light and
answer questions that were never thought possible. Math allows us to
push beyond the known to explore the unanswered questions in the
universe and get one step closer to understanding why we are here, how
we exist, and where we are going. Math is an incredible thing and is both
a tool for us to explain the universe and give it a language, as well as a
beautiful art form in itself. We live in a day and age where humans and
machines can work together to solve the most complex problems in
history and make new discoveries in life. We have the ability the think of
an idea or a question and pose that question to machines and computers
and work together to learn the answers. Even simple things can be
answered with math. Randall Munroe, author of the book "What If," uses
math and science to find answers to the questions that he is asked by his
followers, and although he is not exactly a math fanatic, he appreciates
that it “lets you take some things that you know, and just by moving
symbols around on a piece of paper, find out something that you didn't
know that's very surprising.” Math gives us the power to answer these
questions with some amount of certainty, whether it is your passion or just
something you know the groundwork for. I know that one does not
normally associate mathematics with empathy. After all, we are just a
bunch of robots running around calculating people into a series of
numbers and funny looking symbols. But did you ever think about how you
use perspective in math? Roger Antonsen notes that, when you use an
equal sign in math, you are viewing the same thing, but from different
viewpoints or perspectives (for example; x+x=x*2). When you tell or learn
something from another perspective then you get one step closer to
understanding what you are observing. When you view the world from the
perspective of others you create empathy by truly understanding what the
world looks like from another person’s perspective. Looking at the world
through the inquisitive and imaginative mind of a mathematician can help
you create an incredibly deep connection between empathy and
mathematics.
Conclusion Math has a wide-spread reputation for being the subject
students hate. It’s not uncommon to hear “I hate math class” or “math is
too hard” from students who are struggling. In summary, math is not only
important for success in life; it is all around us. The laws of mathematics
are evident throughout the world, including in nature, and the problem-
solving skills obtained from completing math homework can help us tackle
problems in other areas of life. While many may complain that math is
boring or complicated, the truth is that a life devoid of math means that we
go around experiencing the world on a much less interesting level than we
could. Math is beautiful. But sometimes, this can be hard to see, and even
harder to convey to students who don’t — yet — share your passion. Math
is fun. It teaches you life and death information like when you’re cold, you
should go to a corner since it’s 90 degrees there. Without mathematics,
there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics.
Everything around you is numbers. You don’t have to be a mathematician
to have a feel for numbers. Mathematics is not about numbers, equations,
computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.