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Without having any idea of what we are doing, we use the language of mathematics in our everyday life. I'll give you one simple example: Your mum sends you to buy bread or anything else. And you ask: "How much?" or "How many?" And she answers you: "Two loaves of bread, a kilo of oranges, etc. And then you go shopping, and you ask the shop assistant: "How much is it?", and he says :"Two bucks"(for example). See? Numbers, numbers - everywhere. Everything is connected to mathematics. Or almost everything. Another example: an object is a multitude of points, triangles, circles, squares, rectangles... When you go out you shut the door behind you. Again math appears, because you see, the door has a rectangular shape. Then you go down stairs, and you see them as a multitude of squares arranged one by one. And the streets are also connected to math. They seem like lines; some of them are straight ones, and you think they are infinite, others look like segments. And the people and things you see from a distance look like points, coloured points, don't they? It's the same for the traffic lights: it's a rectangular object with two or three circles in it. For instance, let's say you live in a house and the courtyard may be rectangular, or triangular, or maybe round. When you get out from the house you see the corners. They are square shaped. And again math appears when you see how many blocks of flats there are, how many houses in your neighbourhood, how many shops, stores. Do you want some more other examples? OK. In your house many things are connected to math. The bed is rectangular, the tower the same, the courtains, the sponge. The watch, the clock shows you the hour, through numbers. Another example: when you go to school, you see many other things, like the blackboard, which is rectangular, the chalk, your pencilbox, the rubber, the pen, the desks. When you look up in the sky, what do you see? You see the sun, which is round, like a big shining crystal ball; the sky suggests the infinite, the space - geometry. At night you can see the stars, which are like glittering points and the moon, that sometimes is round, when there is a full moon, and other times is partial and is semicircular or... you know. So, I hope I convinced you that math is something present in our lives and that things could not be what they are without it. Here's a little poem for you:
Math is not something we can see, Coordinators: Olga Buzea & Ioana Dumitru |
