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Why Math Is Important

1) Ada argues that math is important for three key reasons: it is everywhere in everyday life and careers, it teaches important skills like patience and curiosity that children need, and God created both the universe and math. 2) She provides examples of how math is used in various careers and how it brings order to the world. Math also cultivates important virtues in children and allows them to understand more about God's creation. 3) While some say only basic math is needed, Ada disagrees and says we cannot live well without more advanced math concepts, as it connects all areas of life and allows for continued learning, as God intended.

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Why Math Is Important

1) Ada argues that math is important for three key reasons: it is everywhere in everyday life and careers, it teaches important skills like patience and curiosity that children need, and God created both the universe and math. 2) She provides examples of how math is used in various careers and how it brings order to the world. Math also cultivates important virtues in children and allows them to understand more about God's creation. 3) While some say only basic math is needed, Ada disagrees and says we cannot live well without more advanced math concepts, as it connects all areas of life and allows for continued learning, as God intended.

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Why Math Is Important: The Student View

by Ada Bianco

Introduction by Matt Bianco:

A couple of weeks ago, I asked my son to write an extra essay for a project we were working on for the
Classical Conversations practicum. I allowed him to work on that essay instead of his math lesson for the
day. Suddenly, my daughter, Ada, did not want to do her math lesson for the day. I explained that my
son was writing an essay instead and she asked to be allowed to do the same. I thought, “Hmm. . . This is
a good time for my daughter to think about why math is important and come up with her own reasons
for studying this subject.” She wrote the following essay and we thought it might help parents and
students to read Ada’s thoughts.

________________

“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”

– Albert Einstein

Everyone agrees that learning math can be difficult, but some people believe math is important and
some people believe math is not important. Math is important for three reasons: math is everywhere,
children need math, and God created math.

The first reason math is important is math is everywhere. Math is used in everyday life; it is useful, but it
is more than just useful. Math is there to help us, to keep us well ordered, to help us learn new things,
and to help us teach new things. Students will become adults who will use math in their jobs. All kinds of
careers use math; for example, musicians, accountants, fashion designers, and mothers use math.
However, math is not only used for things you do. It also brings order to everything around you; the
world is organized essentially because it was made with math.

The second reason math is important is children need math. Now, as we all know, children are as chaotic
as a volcanic eruption, but children, as they grow, need to learn patience. Patience is precisely what
math teaches us. It also teaches us curiosity; for example, why is this rule used here? Why would that
number be negative? Why is that equation set up like that? These are questions they will learn to ask if
they are taught math. The parents’ job is to help their children grow up to become good people who are
patient and wise, who want to learn even more about anything and everything. Their future depends on
what they have learned and if they have learned mathematics, then they will be able to do many
different things—maybe even anything—when they are adults.

The third reason math is important is God created it. This is a reason most adults use to convince their
children that math is not boring and unimportant, so it may seem unoriginal. I believe, however, it is
something that needs to be stated. God created the universe as well as math. The universe is full of
math and it is orderly because of math. The sun is a certain distance from the earth; everything is
organized in such a way that no matter what has happened we have always been safe. We need math.
From this, you should be able to see how much we really do use and need math. We would not be able
to process or even do everyday things without it. Math, in addition to these things, helps us to know
God. God gave us math to live well and to serve Him. With everything we learn using math in science,
we learn more about the world, which can help draw us closer to God.

Some people say math is unimportant because you don’t need math other than basic math principles—
you can live without more complicated math. They say, if you need it, then simply use a calculator and
leave the more complicated math to people who like math, the mathematicians. This, however, is not
correct; you need math and could not live well without math, even including more complicated math
concepts. God made us with a sense of curiosity so we can learn, do, and think about all sorts of things.
Math is that thing that connects everything together, everything people love to do: music, cooking,
painting, and everything else. Math is important.

Math is important because math is everywhere, children need math, and God created math. This
matters to me and other children because math determines our future and how we choose to live.

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