MATH IN REAL LIFE!SHAMIM AHMED (152-15-5515)

BUT WHERE?This presentation will show you just some of the contributions that math education has helped change the world, create new ideas, or when we are using math in the real world without even realizing it!

Starting right when we wake up, many of us have trouble getting out of bed. Some of us even keep track of how many hours or minutes we can still sleep, and still get to school or work on time. That is a perfect example of using mental math in our every day lives!

ALARM CLOCKS

When shooting a basketball, we must figure out the correct arc used in order to get the ball into the basket. From the point when the ball leaves your hands, to the time the ball lands either on the floor or in an opponent’s hands, we are able to calculate where that ball will land and how long it will take to get there by using parabolas or quadratic functions!

BASKETBALL

Bridges have been used through out history to help humans travel over something that has kept many civilizations separated. Bridges are used over water, canyons, or any other dangerous terrain in order to make travel safe. By calculating distance, stabilization and weight capacity, people have been able to evolve from a simple piece of wood as a bridge, to giant and beautiful pieces of architecture.

BRIDGES

From measuring ingredients, keeping track of an inventory, or telling how long something needs to be cooked for, math is used to help us do one of our favorite past times – EAT! Measurements like cups or liters, ounces or pounds, minutes or seconds, etc. are all mathematic terms that can help in making a delicious meal that everyone can enjoy! No matter what culture you are from, food and how things are cooked is an important part of our daily lives and culture.

COOKING

ALL amusement parks would not be possible without math! Roller coasters are the way for many of us to let our adrenaline race through our veins and challenge our fears of heights and speed! Without the properties of physics and mathematics, amazing amusements like roller coasters would not be possible. How exciting!!

ROLLER COASTERS

“Money makes the world go round.” It also is what drives most of us to work hard. It may not seem that money is a very important thing in our lives, but it is the way that we can purchase things that we need or want. Money gives us status in the society that we live in. It may not make you the person that you are, but there are people that would do a lot for the all mighty dollar! From the house you live in, to the taxes you pay daily money is involved whether you realize it or not.

MONEY

Your height, weight, clothing size and how far you can run have one thing in common – they are all given by measurements! As we get older, it is nice to be able to see how much we grow. Math allows us to use numbers as symbols to represent sizes, to give us distances and to make us realize what is healthy and unhealthy! We can use it to help decide what size portions to eat, figure out how far a mile really is, or how tall you must be to ride an amusement ride.

MEASURING

From the time a person is born to the time they die, they go through points in life where they are in need of medical attention. The medical field uses math to measure medications, keep track of heart beats and blood pressure (ratios), make conversions, and to determine a time line for treatment. Being involved in the medical field means that you need to pay extra attention to the numbers that you are seeing all the time! Someone’s life depends on it!!

HEALTH CARE

Have you ever thought about what it would be like without having an air plane as an option of transportation? Without the correct mathematical calculations from the balance of the wings, and measuring the wind. Also forecasting what the weather is like, or to measure the distance between locations or from the plane location to the ground, we wouldn’t be able to get to our desired locations as fast as we would without aviation technology!

AIR PLANES

IN CONCLUSION…These were just some of the wonderful ways that we see math in our lives without even realizing it; from a commercial airline to a famous baseball player. So next time you think about how “unimportant” math is – think of all of the important things in life that we take for granted every day because people that were able to develop their ideas using MATH!