Math in Daily Life

Today, mathematics is not just a subjects in school but it also became an important thing in our live. Mathematics can be use to a problem solving example when we start to follow a recipe, plan about business, when we shop at the store and many others thing. So, in this topic we can find how important mathematics is.

Not all people are chefs, but we are all eaters. Most of us need to learn how to follow a recipe at some point. To create dishes with good flavor, consistency, and texture, the various ingredients must have a kind of relationship to one another. For instance, to make cookies that both look and taste like cookies, you need to make sure you use the right amount of each ingredient. Add too much flour and your cookies will be solid as rocks. Add too much salt and they'll taste terrible. To make a good taste of food we must now about the relationships between quantities. In math, this relationship between 2 quantities is called a ratio. If a recipe calls for 1 egg and 2 cups of flour, the relationship of eggs to cups of flour is 1 to 2. In mathematical language, that relationship can be written in two ways:
1/2 or 1:2

Both of these express the ratio of eggs to cups of flour: 1 to 2. If you mistakenly alter that ratio, the results may not be edible. That ingredients have relationships to each other in a recipe is an important concept in cooking. It's also an important math concept.

With some math smarts and an understanding of simple and compound interest, you can manage the way your money grows (and ideally keep it from shrinking). The principles of simple and compound interest are the same whether you're calculating your earnings from a savings account or the fees you've accumulated on a credit card. Paying a little attention to these principles could mean big payoffs over time. Jobs in business and finance may require sophisticated knowledge of how to read profit and earning statements or how to decipher graph analyses. However, even hourly earners will need to know if their working hours times their rate of pay accurately reflects their paychecks.

Whether buying coffee or a car, basic principles of math are in play. Purchasing decisions require some understanding of budgets and the cost and affordability of items from groceries to houses. Short-term decisions may mean only needing to know cash-at-hand, but bigger purchases may require knowledge of interest rates and amortization charts. Finding a mortgage may be much different than choosing a place to have lunch, but they both cost money and require math.

Google uses sophisticated mathematical and statistical algorithms to search for the information you need. Amazon is increasing its stretch as a retailer by linking its customers' preferences across a range of different product areas and presenting tantalising recommendations to its users. How does Facebook find friends for you? How do you discover the links you want on Twitter? These are all based on proprietary algorithms developed by mathematicians and computer scientists. And the effects have been staggering. They have altered the way society works with information about just about everything available at the touch of a smart phone. The market value of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter, all built on intellectual property based on mathematical algorithms, is not much short of half a trillion dollars at current market values.

Numerical and logical thinking play a part in each of these everyday activities, and in many others. A good understanding of maths is essential for making sense of all the numbers and problems life throws at us.It’s almost impossible to get through a day without using maths in some way, because our world is full of numbers to handle and problems to solve. Studying maths provides you with the tools to make sense of it all, making life that little bit easier.