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So many students wonder, "when am I going to use this?" We don't understand how variables relate to our futures. Mr. Holman talks about his in on post, math in life. He talked about how many students wonder when coefficients and variables are going to come up in our lives to the point of where we need to know them. Mr. Holman now wonders, "Why am I teaching this?" Should there be specific things that teachers teach? Should they focus on balancing check books, taxes, and home mortgage.



This article is particularly important to me. Not only because Mr. Holman is my algebra teacher, but because I often find myself asking that question. "Why do they teach us algebra?" Most of us will never become scientist, or math teachers. Most of us will never really need to know some of the things we learn in our math classes, its true. Some of my friends used to joke and say, "We are taught these things so that when our kids can't figure it out, we can sit ad be confused with them." But now I know this is not the case. Eventually, we will have to be able to do our taxes and pay mortgages. The math skills we learn now are going to help in college, and even later on, when our kids are sitting at the kitchen table, wearing that same puzzled look, and trying to work out the same problem we struggled with so many years earlier.



math in life relates to the world because there are many students in many schools, who are asking the same question we ask every day. There are students who cut class because they think they will never need to know calculus, so whats the point in going? Many students go through life, not listening to what their teachers are saying, because they don't think that the things they learn in class will ever come up in the real world.

Math is a huge part of our lives. Without it, we can't cook, do taxes, or even count out money to make sure our parents aren't shorting us on our allowances. Mr. Holman brought up a good point, why do we teach what we teach. Well, its true, not for school, but for life, we learn.