Class room memories of daunting equations and fractions with no immediate resonance to the real world, scare people into declaring they are frankly, “bad at maths”. In reality, mathematics underpins the world around us in more ways than we could ever imagine. Just by paying bills, buying grocery and calculating the change returned, measuring home improvements and making everyday decisions, people do maths often without realising.
People say they hate maths, but actually they love counting money! When people say they don’t get maths, it’s mostly because they’ve never been acquainted with the nature of mathematics. They were never told that it is all within them and all they need is a little discovery of this language within them. Or that after a little initial struggle in various topics and a little practice on it, maths will become as simple as breathing.
Maths is a language we should all learn, not to have a good job but because it’s fun to dig into and learn. Every subject should be taught as an adventure not as a tool to earn money.
It’s only by training adventurers with adventures that you’ll have successful and innovative future generations. Once you do understand it, you’ll love knowing yourself and your world through it! It can’t be possible not to understand maths, because the world runs on it!
Published in Dawn, Young World, May 2nd, 2020
