*** 20th Anniversary: 2003 to 2023 ***


Some Basic thoughts from a Passerby

by ben
(St genis France)

Applications of math

Applications of math

While unit conversion is a great skill to acquire, for most people entering into science fairs metric conversions are probably not necessary. This article is most likely written for people in the USA, one of the few countries which do not use the metric system by and large.


As for the Math part of this article, well it's three sentences long, and incredibly sparse. Mathematics is a wonderful pursuit that can indeed give you insight into gambling, when you can think about the odds of a particular bet you can understand what amount of money you should bet for a given outcome.

Also when it comes time to understand how a computer works, having a solid logic understanding will help you in that field.

For me the most important thing math helps me with is cooking. It is sometimes necessary to double recipes, or halve them, or any other fraction to best use up ingredients. I wish you the best luck in your science and math pursuits.

Barry's Response - Thanks Ben. As you can see in the image above, math can also be used as the basis of an artform.

Search this site for more information now.

Comments for Some Basic thoughts from a Passerby

Average Rating starstarstarstar

Click here to add your own comments

Rating
starstarstarstar 		Indeed!
by: Anonymous

Having just graduated college as a physics major I can tell you math is pretty much everything. I don't enjoy doing math per se, and completely understand why most people see it as a drudging subject in school, but I really think that is because in high school (which is most people's last real exposure to math) they present it as a set of dead rules and truisms. There are so many lively debates that are really interesting out there.

Click here to add your own comments

Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Math rules!.


ADD TO OTHER SOCIAL BOOKMARKS: add to Del.icio.usDel.icio.us add to DiggDiggadd to SpurlSpurl


Do you have concerns about air pollution in your area??

Perhaps modelling air pollution will provide the answers to your question.

That is what I do on a full-time basis.  Find out if it is necessary for your project.


Have your Say...

on the StuffintheAir         facebook page

Other topics listed in these guides:

The Stuff in the Air Site Map

And, 

See the newsletter chronicle. 

Thank you to my research and writing assistants, ChatGPT and WordTune, as well as Wombo and others for the images.

GPT-4, OpenAI's large-scale language generation model, helped generate this text.  As soon as draft language is generated, the author reviews, edits, and revises it to their own liking and is responsible for the content.