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In what ways, if any, do you use mathematics in your non-math classes?
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Lisa’s Ramblings about Math in the School System:

As much as I hate to admit it (cause I’m not exactly great at it), math can be found in almost any class, or situation in life really. Of course this is just about school, so I won’t bore you with the life examples. As for school examples, there are many. For instance, just this morning in my geography 40S we were asked that if our death rate was 425/1000 how many kids in our class would have died… surprisingly with this ratio, nine of the 21 students in our class wouldn’t be alive… scary thought isn’t it?? Other than today’s geo class, we always use math to calculate population statistics such as birth and death rates. Business is another class that has lots and lots of math. For instance in my grade 12 international business course we had to do lots of calculations for products, prices, transportation cost etc. In music, when you have to write or do music theory, math is required for putting the proper amount of rests and notes to fill a bar. Example 4/4 timing can have 4 quarter rests ¼ + ¼ + ¼ + ¼ = 4/4 or one full bar. In history, a little math is required for figuring out time periods and how long they lasted, or if you’re studying scientific revolutions. Science is a big one for including math, biology has math relations, and chemistry, physics math based. Family Studies involves cooking, and cooking includes measuring ingredients. Can you imagine baking a cake without measuring? You would have one big mess on your hands, and probably not a tasty one. Art involves math such as measuring for perspective pictures, making borders, cubes and other shapes that require the perfect look and therefore the perfect measurements. Even dance requires the knowledge of counting for beats within a piece of music. Miscount the beats and the whole dance is off. As you can see there are MANY MANY examples of math throughout the school system. I bet that if you were to really think about it, you would find that there are aspects of math in every single class. In all truth, we can’t live without math, and if we tried to our world would be chaos!! Ok I think that’s just about enough from me, hope this helps Mr. K ! Good Luck and Learn Hard!!