Saturday, March 6, 2010

Teaching Elementary Math

Posted by Abouz on March 06, 2010 with No comments
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ~John Louis von Neumann
“The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.” S. Guddergirl studying4
Someone asked me once: “Why do you pay so much importance to math? Is that any good for you? Why do you like it? “. And I said: “what do I win with math? Everything… J
Math changes the way I think and my approach to life. It helps me to get better organized and see things in better perspective. It makes a major contribution to my personal development and to my cognitive transformation.
Math develops reasoning and reasoning helps in just about everything. To understand math means to understand its principles and to apply them in the very daily life. Math is not just calculus and drawing pictures, math is more than that – it is learning to approach a situation, to find the optimum solutions for it and to search for and delete any possible cases in its way.
Math is about forming a strong character. When you face a difficult situation and must find a quick solution, math and reasoning skills give a fast and analytical perspective of the situation, putting you in the position of choosing the best option in a rational way. And in that moment, you grow up more.
First time when you hear about math, you can’ t see it from this perspective, all you see is numbers and strange signs. But if you keep learning and discovering, you will find that honestly, math has it own beauty. ;)
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