Sometimes, I ask myself a question ‘How many decisions do I made in one day?”. That question came out during the time I was studying Computer Science. Our brain is like a super computer, in order to made a decision, our brain goes through a number of process: gathering information, analysis those information, evaluating and finally made a decision which we think that is the best solution among other possible choices. For example, when we wake up in a morning, we decide which clothes we will wear in that day; which route we will take to go work or school; what time we will show up in class or at work; who we will talk; what food we will eat for lunch ..and so on ..so on ...In one day, during our daily activities, we do made hundreds or even thousand of decisions a day
Sometimes, we have to made ‘big’ decisions, such as which career we should chose, what job we should apply and even who we will marry !..etc.. It does matter a decision is ‘small’ or ‘big’, our brain still goes through the same processes: gathering information, analysis, evaluate and made the best choice (which we think that the choice we made is the ‘right’ choice)
A student when doing a multiple choice test, he/she read the questions, gathering given information, analysis and evaluating (based on knowledge which he/she learn in class) and finally chose the best answer among other possible answers
Is that amazing? We actually do math everyday. Our daily activities or even our lives are an infinite sequence of mathematical processes and logical selections. Just like we do hundreds or even thousand of multiple choice questions per day and I just can not came up to a number of how many selections do we made in our life time.
I absolutely agree with the author that mathematic education plays a critical educational role in many aspects of student education: society, work, career, social conducts ..etc...Teaching mathematics we don’t only teach our students how to choose ‘wrong’ or ‘right’ answer in term of numbers, we also teach our students how to choose a ‘wrong’ or ‘right’ answer in many aspects of life. The process of learning mathematics will improve students the skill of processing given information or experience, analysis, evaluate and made the best solution.
Mathematic education can improve the courage of confronting and conquering real life difficulties, exploring and pursuing new ideas, because life has a lot of problems which are needed to be solved. Young generations of this century are not afraid of exploring new ideas and as we’ve seen, many of them succeeded: the creators of Face Book, Google, Youtube....are our examples.
Mathematics Education doesn’t only give the benefits of knowledge to our students, but also give our students the key elements of success in life. All the skill of analysis, evaluating, making the decision that our students need, could be obtained and improved during the process of learning mathematics
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