You think maths is useful only as part of one’s academic life? Actually, maths helps us do many important tasks in our daily life.
1. Time and task management skills: When we wake up in the morning, we look at the time to see whether we have enough time to complete various tasks. Additionally, we use maths when it comes to reading a clock / watch or planning one’s tasks. Maths is the primary factor in managing time while completing various tasks in our daily lives.
2. Budgeting and dealing with money: Managing money, understanding discounts, and buying for the best price all involve the knowledge of maths and, at least, a basic understanding of how percentages work. Here’s an example. How much would a shirt or blouse cost once a 50 % discount is applied? What about once the taxes are added? These questions can be answered only once we understand how discounts and percentages work.
3. Understanding your favorite sports activity: Basic knowledge of maths also helps keep track of scores for every sports activity. Geometry and trigonometry can also help students find the best way to hit a ball, make a basket, or run around the track in an effective manner.
4. Baking your favorite pie: Measuring the ingredients to add to a recipe and kitchen inventory planning require an understanding of fractions and conversion. For example, if the recipe calls for two cups, but you only have a quarter-cup measuring tool and a half-cup measuring tool, how much adds up to two?
5. Home decor and interior designing: A fair knowledge of dimensions, units, and unit conversions is required to be able to sail through any basic home decoration. Common questions when you are trying to set up your new space or apartment could range from the dimensions of wallpaper needed for a wall to having enough space to fit your favorite couch. It’s very important to know these basics before you head to a store.
6. Exercising and dieting: We set our routine according to our workout schedule, count the number of repetitions while exercising, etc., just based on maths. Additionally, we set up diet and meal plans based on effective management of time and meals.
7. Driving: Operating a car or motorcycle is ultimately nothing but a series of calculations with respect to the number of km to the destination, the amount of petrol in the vehicle, the distance that can be covered in a given amount of time or per litre of fuel, how a traffic jam can slow the pace, etc.
8. DIY clothing and design: Maths is also an essential aspect of designing. From taking measurements and estimating the quantity of clothes to producing clothes according to one’s needs and tastes, maths is followed at every stage.
9. Critical thinking: Technically, ‘critical thinking’ is not even maths as there are no numbers involved. However, knowledge of maths surely increases the ability to think critically. The more maths skills you gain, the more you observe the minute details, question available data, rule out unnecessary data, and analyse it for your benefit.
10. The base of other subjects: Although maths is a unique subject, it also forms the base for every other subject, including physics, chemistry, economics, history, accountancy, and statistics.
Maths is a tool in our hands to make our lives easier and more seamless. The more mathematical we are in our approach, the more rational would be our thoughts.
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