A World Full of Math!
Welcome Mrs. Caine’s math class students to my Math Blog! We’ve had quite a math-filled year. Even though our time together is coming to an end in just a few short days, the math we learned this year will be used by you throughout your lives. For today’s math activity I’d like for you to add your own ideas to this blog about math in your real-life world…. Think of at least 3 ways that you will use math in your world beyond the borders of the classroom. Be sure to include the following: (1) At least 3 examples, (2) the specific math skills you will need for each example, (3) an extended explanation of how math will be used in each example given.
To get started just click on the “Leave a Comment” link below. I can’t wait to see what you each add to the list….
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I’ll leave you an example of my own: In class I talk about how MUCH I LOVE proportions. Well, that’s not just “teacher talk” to convince you, I REALLY DO love to use proportions because they are so very useful in my real-life outside of class. Today, for example, I was making pancakes. The recipe called for 3 eggs, but I only had 2 eggs so I used proportions to determine how much I should reduce the milk and oil and pancake mix. The pancakes turned out delicious! I’m sure glad that I knew how to easily change the recipe based on the ingredients I had at home today. Would YOU know how to reduce the recipe if you had to change it from 3 eggs to 2 eggs? Hint: Use proportions — pretending I’m singing that line
WEL YOU USE MATH LIKE IF THERE IS A GAME AT GAMESTOP YOU WANT AND YOU ONLY HAVE $20.00 AND THERE IS A SALE ONE THE GAME 50% OFF HOW MUCH WOULD IT BE $10.OO
Okay, how much would it be if it were 33% off? Use proportions and it’ll be easy to figure out….
1) When i get older and have to buy diapers for my babies.
Lets say the diapers cost $12.10 for each pack of 15 and i bought 3 packs. in order to know how much money i need i would have to multiply 12.10 times 3 and i get $36.03.
2)Lets ay bought two hulla hoops for my birthday and each hulla hoop cost $5.00 i would have to multiply 5 time 2 and that will be 10 dollars all together so i wud spend $10.
3)Lets say i owed the bank 7 dollrz and i only had 3 i would need to subtract in order to kno how much i owed the bank my equation would be
-7 – 3=-10
I THNK!!!?????!
Are you sure about that bank example? Maybe you should go back and repost — Are you saying that if you had $3 in your pocket to pay the bank then you would still owe them $10 (hey, that’s MORE than you owed them in the first place!)
1.you use math everyday when you go to the store and buy food. Like if you give the cashier $50 but it cost $25.50 then you would subtract that and get $24.50 in change.(subtraction/ addiction) 2.you use math when you cook, like if you were doubling cake batter and the recipe calls for 1 1/4cp of water and 1/3cp of oil and 1 pack of cake mix + 2 eggs. If you double you get 2 1/2 cps of water, 2/3 of oil, 2 cake mixes, and 4 eggs.(adding fractions) 3.if you are a carpenter you use measurements and area like 24ft. by 36Ft. so they would cover 864Ft. with wood.
Great examples, Stella. We really are surrounded by math every day — we just have to look for it.
My examples are: Use my cell phone for the calculatar(if needed). Also you tought me how to use proportions, and i got the hand of it. Turns out i really really love them, they are so fun to use. I also learned how to count in 1 grade so i know how to count the change and dollar bills in my pocket.
I really DO LOVE proportions, so I am glad to hear that you have come to like them, too. Keep looking for ways to use them — they have SO MANY uses in the real world…..
lol. At home I use math do do simple thing like when I cook . Also when I am at the store my mother and I look to see which deal is better so we can save money .When I do my homework.
HOW do you use the math to see which product is the better deal? I use math a lot when I cook, too.
I don’t really use math..Besides for school.
im going to use math with area for my bases in paint ball i would like it big enough to stock our guns ammo and equitment so the team leader(me) has make a plan big enough for ten people wish me luck
That sounds like a good use of area, Tre.
I would use math in engenering, and even making food!!
How, Dylan? How would you use them in engineering and cooking? Give some details — show me you understand their use in the real world….
i love prportions like ms.caine. everytime someone asks me something to do with prpotions i auomatically do it because of what u taught me and how u teach it.i will miss you next year beacuse u helped me leran and u nver gave up on me
lol i love ur class is all i can stay and even tho we have had our fights i still love mys classes wit u
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you will neeed math when you go shopping, and when you get your hurr did.
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you’ll need it with mostly anything you do in your daily day:P.
I would use math in engenering,making food,and sicence. For engenering i would use varibals and algrabrectic equations.like how much thrust a rocket needs to lift off. here is the equation liftoff=mass+thrust.last making food you will need volume. for example you will need to know how much one bag of flower holds.
There we go… there are the details to HOW you could use them in engineering and cooking….. Thanks for extra info here. BTW: Why do I need to know how much a bag of flour holds?
I will use math everyday of my entire life, like when I go to the grocery store. I need to always count my money to see how much change I need to get back or how much I need to pay. If I need to figure out how many people are coming to a party im having or something I could use your basic math skills like Addition/Multiplication. Porportions help a lot too, like to figure out how much carpet I can put down on my floor.I can just set up the information I already know and then multiply then divide
I like that you are offering specific examples. I don’t quite understand how proportions will help with laying rug — explain…. I know proportions are amazing; I just don’t understand how they apply in this example.
when i have to work i can use it .. =]
Alright, Amber, give me MORE MORE MORE details. HOW will you use it at work — what job are you thinking about? How will you use math? I definitely agree that you WILL need math, but explain.
They would help because you could find out how big the floor is and how much carpet you need to cover it and if you have to double it or something like that. You could set all that information up to see how much carpet you will need to buy to cover the rug.
The activities i liked, that actually helped and gave me practice on some things were, the popcorn thing and the little sayings that we use to remember certain strategies we did, such a co-”move”-ative as in communative.
i use my phone for a calculator and when i want to buy somthing at the store also when i must use it when i have to make fractions into decimals to find the largest amount of whatever i need.
i like to use math i want to be a stock broker but right now i use simple math like with money ex. $40-$20=20$ but i will still use it in every thing i do
One way, we will use math in our entire lives is like counting money. We count money everytime we go to the store. If i go to the grocery store and buy a $2.50 bar of candy, and i have $4.00, i need to use the skills from decimals to figure out how much i owe the clerk, and how much i will get back.
Another way, is like cutting a pizza. If i have a party and invite 5 friends, i need to use my fraction skills and be able to cut the pizza into 5 pieces evenly.
One last way, is to pay my bills. Maybe if i get my bill for my house and it is a fraction. Well then i would have to be able to convert my fractions into percents. That is 3 examples of how i would need to use math through out my whole life.
i use math ALOT when im at a store trying to add prices together to figure out the prices of my items.Two other ways i use math is when i try thinking of how tall stuff is and when i think of how much something ways.hope i could help.
Sometimes I use math to figure out how much time I have before I go somewhere.
Other people use math maybe to figure out how much money they owe a company or something.
so you see if I wre at the bank and i said i wanted to deposit 1,000 dolars and i wanted to get 20 of those dollars i would have 980 dollars left
can use it to calculate how much money you will need to buy things, you can see at a resterant which table to sit at depending on the size, and you can use it when doing taxes.
My examples in everyday life(math)
1.) I wanna be a be a model when I grow up. So i would need to buy plane tickets to get to a show or photo shoot. I would need to see how much money I have and how much money the ticket is. Then subtract the two, and see how much money I have left over.
2.) With that job, I wanna buy a house. If i wanna put in a couch, i would have to use area to figure out if i can put the couch in (or a big t.v.
)
3.) if i have a kid i wanna buy them really cute clothes, so then i might have to go to the bank and get more money. if i owe them money later then i need to know how to subtract decimals. : )
yep, that about it.
I think math is very important in and outside of school because, when we get older we will have to keep a check book and that ALWAYS includes doing some math..i know that because i do my mom’s for her sometimes. Also, when we have to bake things like brownies for example, we might not have the right pan size so we would have to use fractions and maybe a little bit of “PROPORTIONSSSS” <3 to convert it to a bigger or smaller pan. Also, having a budget for buying clothes or presents for christmas you have to add the amounts up like when there is a sale you might have to convert the percentage you get off to a fraction and so on..
1:using mony :making stuff with wood :playin consel games
well i count diferent chang for diferent mony, i have to mesure diferent meserments for wood, and playin games well thers diferent strategy for diferent games
In the real world math concepts like money counting and multipucation can be helpful because when you get a job and the maneger saids “I wil pay you a certain amount of money an hour and you will recive your pay check every 2 weeks” you need to know you are getting paid the rigth amount everytime. Also Adding,subtracting and dividing fractions will be helpful because if you want to make cookies and on the box it saids you can make 14 cookies but you only want to make 7 cookies you have to split up the ingedience evenly or your 7 cookies won’t look or taste so good.