Saturday, March 27, 2010

Math the greatest concept

I just finished reading a trade book (for adolescents). The plot had a good twist and the language, not particularly challenging for an adult, it was adequate for the age group. The only thing that made me go berserk was the author's comment at the end, when she referred to math as being boring. She should be sue for such allegations after all, she wrote a book to a developing audience. is that the message she want to spread to the learning attitudes? If she is one of those people that are math injured she should not be spreading such ignorance.
The way that math is taught can be very mysterious and mystified, many can easily loose tract of the real concept, and most fail to see the connections between the real world and math. In reality math is everywhere. We take it for granted and we rarely stop to contemplate that we use it in our daily lives and to solve so many problems. I only know very little about math, but I know that scientist use it to express their discoveries and to collect data. I am implying that we can't have a new generation thinking that math is boring. In the contrary we want them to approach such concept with a positive attitude so they can make even greater discoveries, than Fibonacci, Einstein, Socrates and others.

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