Essay About Math

Did you know that math is in baseball? Math is everywhere! The pitching speed, how far the ball goes, and so much more is math. Most people don’t realize it until they keep stats or write about it. Baseball is one of the top sports with the most math. I know a lot about baseball. The equipment you need to play is a bat, ball, and a helmet for yourself. You still need bases, foul lines, and other players to play with. There is 9 players on the field, plus the one batter. Every player has a batting average and every pitcher has an average pitching speed. There is also, 3 players in the outfield and 6 players from your team in the infield. I still want to know a lot more about baseball. I want to learn more of the technical things that involve…

my action research project. Vocabulary is an obvious area in which to focus my research because it emphasizes teaching the meanings of words and their elements. I chose math vocabulary because it seems to be the most difficult for them. There is so much more to math than just numbers. Most students tend to think that studying vocabulary is meant for other subjects, like reading and English. The Georgia Milestones Math portion is heavy laden with math vocabulary. Math vocabulary is important for…

and found that the students in the Asian nation performed much better than their peers in the world in math achievement. Singapore, Korea, Taipei, Hong Kong and Japan had the highest mathematics achievement average scale score (Mullis et al. 32). Many Americans struggle with math skills. Reports have indicated that 58% of American adults don’t know how to calculate a tip for their waiter when they eat out, 71% don’t have the knowledge to calculate miles per gallon, 78% can’t calculate the…

I can there are languages like that, I consider math and music to be languages, while logic can be also be considered language but it doesn’t apply to all 3 rules of language. The reason why math and music are a language because it applies to the 3 rules of language. Language is rule governed, intended, and open-ended. What is language? Language is when words, information, or emotions are exchanged. That is why logic is considered to be language because you can unknowingly exchange information…

While in the field, I observe math in the morning everyday. Each day that I am in the field, the way in which they learn the material is the same style of lesson. The students use a math book and a math workbook to follow along with the lesson and complete practice problems. Within the book, the order is as follows: a teacher example, a class example, individual practice problems, and then a few “hot” problems to challenge the students once they have finished. So, the lesson that I have decided…

This math challenge was easy to approach, because I realized that the lines O1O, O1O2, and O2O1, form a triangle, I realized that if that triangle was a right triangle I could find the distance between O1, and O. To prove that triangle OO1O2 is a right triangle I used the radii of O1, I realized that the sides of triangle PO1Q, O1P, and O1Q, are radii, and therefore they are equal. Since they are equal, the triangle PO1Q, is an isosceles triangle. In an isosceles triangle the base angles are…

“Math in Medicine” Contrary to popular belief, medicine and math coincide with each other in many different ways. Although the majority of people find math to be of no use towards their daily life, and see it as the bane of their studies, this shows that they are quick to judge a topic that they might not be very educated on the specifics of. Mathematics not only helps medical research specialists when trying to find equations to new chemicals, but these same discoveries help create…

When reviewing the survey the first thing I noticed was that there were a lot of leading questions or close ended questions. For example, in question 23 when first giving the definition of math anxiety it seems that most people would say yes, whether they truly felt they had it or not prior to looking at the question. In addition, asking more than one question within a question leads to confusion and the inability to answer it straight forward. For example, in question 24 when asking if the…

Visual Math Improves Math Performance The use of visuals during mathematics is beneficial to mathematicians, for it increases students’ comprehension of math by “[highlighting] the mathematics inside the problem and [helping] students develop [a] understanding...” The use of this tool also depicts how each student solves a problem differently. By each student demonstrating how they solved a problem, conversation is stimulated and their creativity is illustrated. Visual representations can help…

fallen further behind other countries in standardized math assessments. She wanted to understand why U.S students were performing so badly. Once…