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Application of Maths in Real Life
Partibha Gupta
Assistant Professor, Humanity Department, MDGI Indore, M.P. India
Abstract: Historically, most students have been struggling with mathematics subject which makes them wonder if they will ever apply
the knowledge in real world life. Teachers and parent admit when they have been asked that students have very few knowledge about
the relevance of mathematics in real life. That is why this paper is based on application of maths in real life. In this paper the most
common and essential applications of mathematics in real life is discussed such as finance and banking, weather prediction, computers
and its games, search engines (goggle), music and Transportation and logistics. Apart from these some advanced applications are also
discussed such as satellite navigation, military and Defence and crime prediction.
Keywords: Mathematics, Real life, Finance and Banking, Satellite Navigation, Military and Defence
1. Introduction In this section, we stated several papers that are about
mathematical concepts and its relation to real life. Costu
Mathematics is the key to opportunity. No longer just the (2009) indicated that students who were successful in
language of science. Mathematics now contributes in direct mathematics were also found to be fail to apply mathematics
and fundamental ways to Business, Health, Finance and in real problems in everyday life. This may be due to lack of
Defence. For students it is very important subject because it building relationships between mathematics and real life [3].
opens doors to careers therefore students must be capable to In other study Salout (2013) studied the high school students
relate this subject with their real life. Therefore teachers of conception about the relation of mathematics to real life in 3
mathematics have to teach mathematics through real strands; mathematics, experimental science and humanities.
concepts in personal life of students. If mathematical In this study he found that it is necessary to modify
concepts taught via teachers formally then students will face curriculums and textbooks in terms of mathematics
many problems which cannot solve it. development and students needs in real life [4]. Also Arthur
(2018) studied about teacher’s ability to connect
The principal and standards for school mathematics has mathematics to real life problems so that students build their
stated that mathematical instructions should enable students interest in mathematics. This study found that teachers
to ability to connect mathematics to real life problem can be put
1) Recognize and use connection among mathematics ideas. into 2 principal components and these components
2) Understand how mathematics ideas interconnect and significantly predicts 57.4% students interest in mathematics.
builds on one another to produce a coherent whole and The study also found that if mathematic teachers spend
finally. mostly time for practicing class exercise then students will
3) Recognize and apply mathematics in contents of be more interested in mathematics [5]. After study all this
mathematics [1]. research papers it has been concluded that paper will has to
be designed which told about all the essential application of
According to NCTM cited for students of grades 9 to mathematics in real life, so that students will more
12th- understand the subject deeply and connect this subject to
1) Students should have ability to use their knowledge of their real life problems.
mathematical modeling and data analysis to understand
societal issues and workplace problems in reasonable 3. Real Life Applications of Mathematics
depth.
2) They should be confident to explain complete 3.1 Finance and Banking
applications in the outside world by using mathematics.
3) They not only learn to execute connections but they learn To exhibit the importance of Mathematics in the Banking
to take advantage of them using insights gamed in one sector, we have compiled a few points below:
context to solve problems in another [2]. (a) Daily Accounting Operations: Right from the teller to
4) Students should have ability to use their knowledge of the branch manager; anyone working in the Banking
mathematical modeling and data analysis to understand sector handles large sum of money on a daily basis.
societal issues and workplace problems in reasonable Therefore, they have to have the basic arithmetic skills
depth. like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. The
5) They should be confident to explain complete calculations involved are centred on debit-credit and
applications in the outside world by using mathematics. account balancing.
6) They not only learn to execute connections but they learn (b) Policy Formulation: Top ranking banking officials
to take advantage of them using insights gamed in one have the responsibility of creating a practical and
context to solve problems in another [2]. implementable financial policy for the bank that may
2. Literature Study help the organization reach its goals for the financial
year or any predefined time period.
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(c) Risk Assessment: Mortgages and Loans form the crux applied frequently, basic mathematics and most importantly,
of the banking industry and risk assessment for such algebra is the main reason for success behind a successful
cases can only be evaluated using complex mathematical computer scientist. The main branches where mathematics is
models. Risk assessment is a very important aspect for applied in computer science is as follows:
which banking professional will have to employ Arithmetic, comparison, logical, assignment and
complex mathematical skills and models to measure the conditional operators make use of mathematics.
amount of risk exposure for the organization and deploy Algorithm that lay the foundation of computer science
counter measure to control the damage. relies heavily on mathematics.
(d) Economics: Keeping an eye on contemporary macro Theoretical computer science involves a lot of
actions and trends, in order to calculate and predict the mathematics which deals with mathematical structure that
future course for domestic as well as international are discrete rather than continuous.
economy. Theoretical computer science involves a lot of
(e) Financial Trends & Predictions: This is another very mathematics in the form of graphs, algorithms, algebra,
important aspect of the banking industry that completely quantum computation, computational geometry and
relies upon mathematics. In order to arrive at credible computational number theory.
and actionable predictions for the future; banking Computer operates on binary digits which is basically
professionals may have to rely upon models like mathematics.
Stochastic calculus or Black-Sholes.
(f) Investment Banking: Although relatively new and A computer programmer may not need mathematics in the
evolving aspect; investment banking has emerged as one beginning but as programmer advances, more advanced
of the fastest growing fields of the banking industry. mathematics is used [9].
When it comes to investment banking, professionals
have to rely on multifaceted financial mathematics. 3.4 Making Music
These may include partial differential calculus,
probability, stochastic calculus and others similar The notations of composers and sounds made by musicians
concepts [6]. are connected to mathematics. The next time we hear or play
classical, rock, folk, religious, ceremonial, jazz, opera, pop,
3.2 Predicting the Weather or contemporary types of music, think of what mathematics
and music have in common and how mathematics is used to
The weather is a fantastically complex system, with billions create the music we enjoy.
of molecules interacting. This makes predicting the weather
an incredibly difficult tasks, even using the extensive Reading Notes and Fractions
network of weather stations, satellites, and the world’s Musical pieces are read much like we would read math
largest supercomputers. symbols. The symbols represent some bit of information
about the piece. Musical pieces are divided into sections
The computations related to weather forecast is connected called measures or bars. Each measure embodies an equal
to fluid dynamics and the equation used for weather forecast amount of time. Furthermore, each measure is divided into
is Navier stock equation. To be more precise, we solve equal portions called beats. These are all mathematical
equations related to fluid flow under certain conditions like divisions of time.
conservation of mass, energy and continuity equation.
The initial state of the atmosphere is defined with various Fractions are used in music to indicate lengths of notes. In a
parameters such as temperature, pressure, humidity etc. Then musical piece, the time signature tells the musician
a future predicted state is reached through computations. In information about the rhythm of the piece. A time signature
view of the non-linearity of the relations between various is generally written as two integers, one above the other.
state parameters, the exact solution of equations becomes The number on the bottom tells the musician which note in
very tedious. Hence numerical approach is adopted where in the piece gets a single beat (count). The top number tells the
the atmosphere is divided into grids and levels and equations musician how many of this note is in each measure.
are solved. Numbers can tell us a lot about musical pieces.
But even tiny differences in measurements and the Each note has a different shape to indicate its beat length or
simulation parameters can have great effect on these time. Notes are classified in terms of numbers as well.
predictions. Therefore it is still impossible to accurately There are whole notes (one note per measure), half notes
predict the weather more than a few weeks in advance – but (two notes per measure), quarter notes (four notes per
the accuracy of mathematical models and speed of measure), eighth notes (eight notes per measure), and
computers will only improve in the future [7,8]. sixteenth notes (sixteen notes per measure). These numbers
signify how long the notes last. That is, a whole note would
3.3 Computers last through the entire measure whereas a quarter note would
only last ¼ of the measure and thus there is enough time for
Computer can be understood as combination of mathematics four quarter notes in one measure. This can be expressed
and physics used for technology, engineering and research. mathematically since 4 x 1/4 = 1. A note with a dot after it
Along with physics, mathematics is one of the foundations of lengthens the note by half. For example, a quarter note with
computer sciences. Although advanced mathematics is not
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a dot after it would be held for 3/8 as a Random Walk, thus allowing for more effective police
of a measure, since patrols.
Research developed during the last few decades in the field
Three eights of a measure is midway between a quarter note of crime analysis has reached a very important conclusion:
and a half note. It is important for musicians to understand some specific types of crime always happen in the same
the relationships and values of fractions in order to correctly places, giving rise to the formation of crime hotspots.
hold a note [10]. Mathematicians worked with the LAPD to understand the
development and dynamics of “crime hotspots”. Using
3.5 Transportation and Logistics probability, statistics and swarm dynamics, they found that
there are two kinds of hotspots which react very differently
The mathematics of transport and logistics aims at on police intervention [13].
optimizing the design and the operation of networks for the
movement of persons and goods. Such networks can be 3.8 Computer Games
modelled as graphs, in which commodities flow from their
sources to their destinations. The mathematical treatment of Many computer games use 3D graphics. Moving and
such models leads to large-scale integer programming animating these on a 2-D screen, also light and shadows,
problems, whose solution requires the development of novel rendering colours requires matrices, vectors and many other
efficient algorithms. concepts from 3D geometry and linear algebra. In
computer games realistic water and animate moving and
Transportation and logistics problems often have a special colliding physical objects. For this, they use numerical
flavour that depends on the application. Train composition in solutions to the appropriate partial differential equations,
railway planning leads to algorithmic hyper graph theory, such as Navier-Stokes equations which model fluids [14].
user behaviour in public and road traffic requires algorithmic
game theory, aircraft performance is treated best by discrete- 3.9 Satellite Navigation
continues models, sustainable manufacturing network gives
rise to multicriteria optimization, operation theatre To determine any location on earth such as position, speed
scheduling leads to robust optimization, and so on. To solve and local time of a person and vehicle satellite navigation
such problems, we combine problem specific research that systems like GPS (Global Positioning System) use signals
aims at understanding this special structure with general from satellites. These signals are extremely accurate times.
approaches to deal with very large networks. Foci of our By finding their delay, a computer can calculate how far
work are on the development of adaptive coarse-to-fine away the satellites are. If know the distance from at least
graph generation approaches in discrete analogy to finite three different satellites, and the position of these satellites,
element methods, and on decomposition methods for the we can find the unique and exact position of the receiver on
integrated treatment of multiple model layers [11]. Earth. Metrics are the mathematics generalisation of
measuring distance. Because of general relativity, GPS
3.6 Search Engines receivers have to use Kerr metric to calculate distances,
rather than usual Euclidean metric [15].
Millions of peoples use the internet every day because
internet makes it so easy to find information quickly, for 3.10 Defence and Military
example using search engines like goggle.
In addition to providing the framework for designing new
In order to find the most useful websites and display technologies and weapons, or solutions to logistical
them at the top, Google represents all pages on the problems like the transportation of soldiers, weapons and
internet in a gigantic matrix. The matrix knows about food, mathematical models can be used to develop and
how the various websites are linked, and you can use simulate complex military strategies. These simulations
linear algebra, probability, and graph theory to find the might involve game theory, statistics or probability. In
most popular sites. Apart from these goggle uses recent years, cyperwarfare has become increasingly
mathematics for many other services also such as important, for counterintelligence, industrial espionage, and
finding directions in Maps, spam detection in Gmail, terrorism. Organizations like the NSA or GCHQ develop and
voice recognition on Android, text recognition when attempt to break secret codes.
scanning books, compressing YouTube videos,
detecting faces in
4. Conclusion
3.7 Crime Prediction
Maths is unavoidable. It is a deeply fundamental thing. It is a
If we have seen the TV series you will remember many ways main matter of the real-life that can cover all aspects of real
in which mathematics was used by the FBI. And while most world. As it seen from all above applications that maths is
of these examples were made up, mathematics does have real very important tool in making music, computer games, in
applications when mapping, predicting and preventing crime. designing websites, in search engines like goggle and also in
For example, the behaviour of a burglar could be modelled money management. By this we can understand, mathematics
is really useful and significant in our daily life as is
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