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Learning Mathematics is a Must

Most students and their parents really dislike maths. They always complain about

difficult,unsolvable examples, also adding that they will never use it at all in their whole

lives. In their opinion higher mathematics does not benefit average peoples life. They arenot right; there is mathematics in every tiny piece of the universe. More exactly, it is

surprisingly hard to find a field where you do not encounter it. Without mathematical

thinking we cannot maintain, let alone improve our present life. Understanding the world

around us needs analysing mathematical skills. No success can be made without hard work.

The knowledge must be passed on, the world is desperately in need of highly educated

people, who can deeply understand and even resolve ever-rising enigmas.

Take History for example; normally you do not expect any contact between these two

disciplines. But nowadays, as mankind understands more and more about the processes of

the big picture, a fine shape takes form: civilizations were born and destroyed one after

another, but not without any regularity. Eye-catching similarities can be observed in the

collected data. Namely the prosperity intervals and poverty intervals following each other in

the life of a given empire give a characteristic function. And the graphic is the same when we

plot the existence (appearance, development and disappearance) of empires as a function of

time. This regularity has a name: fractal, which is examined within a separate branch of

mathematics. Fractals can be found in stock-exchange diagrams, coastlines of continents,

meteorological phenomena, snowflakes and God knows what else.

Maths-teaching is the big test, through which we can select the heirs of the future, the

possessors of the Knowledge out of the rest. In other words, teaching mathematics is a may-

day signal, because next generations are supposed to resolve our present problems. That is

why we are putting so huge emphasis on the handing-on of the Knowledge. The only way to

pass on the Knowledge is to spread it generously to everyone, and wait until the seeds of

knowledge sprout in some of the souls, and accept that where the seeds miss to strike root,

all of our efforts were in vain. We cannot tell at early stages which child is worth the struggle

and which one is not.It is natural that sometimes maths seems incomprehensible even to

the clever ones. We were not born with it, it must be mastered. Everybody sweats and loses

many battles against the Queen of Sciences, while achieving spectacular feats in the end.

Moreover, as we gain insight to the world further and further, our curiosity grows even

bigger and we want to see as far as we can. Maths gives us the key to the enigmatic, so far

undiscovered countries. Without maths we could hardly go on.

Imagine what would happen if nobody, or just a very few children was forced to struggle

with maths. The resulting that not a single soul would have the option to become the

engineer, architect, astronomer, or computer programmer of the future. No one would be

able to discover the secret laws of nature and we could hardly maintain the high-tech level

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of our everyday life without persons who are educated enough to create gizmos and

gadgets.

Let me present you a few examples comparable to learning maths. Take into consideration

how hard it is to master the ability of walking. Yet we never discourage our children in

gaining this skill, saying: Try it down on all fours instead. Thats much easier. Learning to

swim also requires quite much pool-water drinking while eventually we manage to do the

butterfly stroke, but then a whole other new world dawns upon us. The same applies to

reading, driving a car, writing bestsellers, using foreign languages delicately: they all require

a considerable effort to learn, yet most people still acquire them during their life, and then it

never feels the same for them again.

Untalented ones know it for sure that maths was created by the Devil himself. Every now

and then it can be heard that maths should be taught only to those who are interested in it.

However, this cannot be done because who on earth can tell who is interested in maths, if

students never have the chance to realize what math really is? While a person does not

possess a certain special skill will not realize how important it is. But as he or she gets a

detailed insight it becomes very clear that nothing is as simple as formerly was thought.

In a word, learning mathematics generates awkward feelings in the vast majority of worlds

population, but ruling it out of the list, our present world would not be able to sustain its

present-day face. In a mathless world it would be terrible to live. The sheer thought sends a

chill down my spine.