Linking Math to Our Lives A report from the "Rays of Mathematics", a group of students at Kings College Budo, Uganda

We, the rays of mathematics, have discovered that what we do in a day can accumulate to days in a year. and this is what we came up with using mathematics.
We found that an average student in our school, Budo uses 8 hrs a day for sleeping this is 10 days a month and 122 days a year
Eating: 5 hours are used for eating and leisure a day. This is 5 days a month and 61 days a year.
Sports: 2 hours are used for sport daily after classes coming to 3 days a month and 36 days a year.
Classes: 9 days are spent on class a day, which is 12 days a month and 144 days a year.
So there remains 2 free days a year.
Assignment 2
The amount of the main foods eaten at our school (a boarding school) is follows:
 

 

Item	Kg used/month	Kg used/year
Sweet potatoes	3200	38400
Cassava	3200	38400
Beans	1200	14400
Sugar	2000	24000
Maize floor	1960	24520
Meat	200	2400
Chicken	106	1272
Rice	960	11520

We studied the amount of nutrients in processed milk and using mathematics we present our findings.
 

 

Nutrient	Content in 1 box of milk/g	Content in 1 carton/g
Proteins	3.3	79.2
Fats	3.6	86.4
Carbohydrates	4.6	110.4
Calcium	0.1	2.4
Vitamin A	0.015	36
Vitamin B	0.004	.096

We have 5 fingers on each hand. Most people in many activities they do such as writing use 3 fingers at a time i.e a fraction 3/5, while others use 2 fingers 2/5. The ratio of majority to minority is 3/5: 2/5 = 6:4.