Sometimes parents hear from their children: "I will not learn geometry/algebra/mathematics, I will not need it in my life, and I already know how to count". We have collected many life situations when math comes in handy in life. Choose the most relevant from this list and tell your kids how math will be useful to them right now and in a few years from now:
1. Calculate the amount of food to make cupcakes, cakes, and other foods without getting confused about ounces, pints, and milliliters
2. Calculate how much money is needed for shopping at the store and how much change will be left over
3. Calculate what you have enough pocket money for
4. Divide the pizza among the guests
5. Buy the right amount of wallpaper or volume of paint for the renovation
6. Measure the area of the room or plot for the future house and understand what size furniture is needed
7. Make a mock-up for a school project, calculate dimensions and quantity of materials
8. Calculate the amount of gasoline to go to another city with friends
9. Calculate spending on summer vacations
10. Choose favorable tariffs for internet, phone and so on
11. Pay bills
12. not to overpay when shopping
13. Calculate BMI, calculate water rates for your body weight
14. Calculate speed, time and distance to get to a party with friends on time or to be on time for the airport
15. Make clothes for yourself or a doll
16. Calculate whether it is profitable to take a loan and what is better: to pay less but longer or more but to close the loan faster
17. Profitable currency conversion
18. Decide whether to gamble and what the probability of success is
19. Calculate success and approximate return on investment
20. Do not fall for gimmicks. For example, buy more volume for less money
And lastly, some more usefulness. Math:
- Good for memory development, so you can memorize poems, dates, and other information faster
- Greatly develops logic, which means it will be easy to solve problems, puzzles, determine cause and effect, play mafia and other games
- Teaches proportionality, which means it will be easier to draw objects and transfer proportions to paper more accurately
- Develops critical thinking, which means that it will be very difficult to manipulate someone who knows math