Math Can Be So Much Fun
by editor on Mar.26, 2009, under News
Do you think that math is fun? Most people don’t. Mathematical skills have been steadily declining and it is a fact that they are currently the worst in history. The reason is that computers are doing the bulk of the work for us.
You don’t have to even add up your groceries you buy in the supermarket, because the cashier and her computer is doing for you. And what person is willing to do it by himself, if he will later experience his results are wrong and a computer can do it in a much shorter time?
Even when controlling our income and expenses at home or at work we use a spreadsheet, just because it is so conveneint. It seems there is simply no need to add numbers in our head anymore. Computers and calculators have made our lives easier, but they’ve also made it easier to forget how to do math altogether.
For instance, consider the current financial crisis – if people were able to understand and comprehend what those everyday numbers meant, the situation would not be as dire as they are now. Now is the time to relearn math or at the very least, teach our children so that will be able to cope with an economic climate which will likely be very different in the future.
There are many cool math games you can play with your kids. This way they learn to deal with numbers instead of being afraid of them. A guide that can help you is the vedic math e-book that can be downloaded online. It is getting more popular every day as people like you and me start having fun with math again.
