Don't Kill your child with Maths Options

[madhusudhanp@yah...]

Maths should be made mandatory for engineering preferred students and not for students who go for other major fields like Arts, medicine etc. Were Math’s doesn’t play a major role. Elementary to high school the math’s for non-engineering stream students should have Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, and basic accounts to lead a happy life from childhood to Adulthood. We need to get this in social engineering to build a good citizen without any advanced maths.

Calculus, Trigonometry, Geometry, theories and proofs never applied in other major fields after a high school.

When parents doesn’t have time to teach math’s, they have to hire tutors.

Many students have the phobia of Math’s. Due to which they go into depression and sometime
it lead's to suicidal tendencies.

Except Math’s, Most of the students do well in other subjects.

[Gigi]

Just before you retort with something like, "Dude, I'm not gonna go and graph parabolas and find values of x in everyday life", I'll just say that Math isn't just numbers and calculations. Sure, it has a lot to do with numbers, but it's the process of thinking that helps you in life. It's a skill-training subject in critical thinking. It forces you to think logically in any real-life situation, not just one with some calculations. Problem solving in every day life, situations that occur...we attack those with a logical, rational procedure. These logical sequences aren't necessarily taught or nurtured in a creative subject.

I think I pretty much disagree with everything you said. Math is integral to every single aspect of life, whether you see it or not. Pick up anything at all - you can be positive that Math is associated with it.

That Shakespeare play over there on your desk, you think that's just beautifully crafted literature? No, it's not. It's careful measurement of the binding, of the margins, of the spaces between individual letters, of the precise amount of ink needed to print with so as not to bleed through the pages. That's all math. Even the literature itself - math. It's iambic pentameter, it's a specific number of syllables to a line; there's Haiku, with strict format, even in poetry. Okay, so we're not talking E. E. Cummings here, but math is present in all types of literature to a certain extent.

Pick up a seashell and you won't notice the Golden Ratio. Stare off into space and you won't realize that you're looking into billions of tiny particles of nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide. Look at a Da Vinci masterpierce, and you might not notice the careful placement of his subjects and the way the light hits in exactly the right point - and you might not even notice the irony that, one of the greatest artists in history was also a great inventor, and made sketches of them in extreme, mathematical detail. You won't notice these things - but they're there.

[*mipadi*]

Math is integral to every single aspect of life, whether you see it or not.

No pun intended.