Ha ha. National education. Something that all teachers and parents want children to learn. In hope that they will be become ministers in the future? Probably. Anyway, let me move on to my main points, and some general coverings.
How is math relevant in today's society? We see that math is the base of virtually everything. Important ministries such as the ministry of finance will need math to calculate certain figures, and some of them will be slightly more complex than the regular math problems, these formulas or solutions we have provided will then come into place. Imagine if math is non existent in the world of today. Even if we were in a economic crisis, we would have assumed that we were not, if math were not existent. And, there wo9uld be no statistics for leaders to study, and improve the country, and Singapore would not be the prospering country it is now. Simply because there many good mathematicians in Singapore, our economy is stable, our country keeps improving, and, in a school like ours, which aims to nurture future leaders, this is especially important to us. Without math, we would see that we would not even know what NE is, because we cannot think at all! Of course, I may be incorrect to say that all the problems we have raised here will be used directly in parliament, but then, in one way or another, they will be used indirectly, especially in the finance components, to see what economic status we are in now, and to improve our lives.
Thank you. I hope we have just delivered a teacher's dream.
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Thanks for giving me a better insight of Maths in Singapore.However,you did not mention that the use of solving problem sums is for wanting the children to look at problems in different perspectives,thus able to solve the problem.
ReplyDelete(I hope this assumption is correct.)
This is Bin Hui (18) 1P1
ReplyDeleteBy the way,you are soloing the whole maths blog?! Wow.
This blog is rather informative but could you cite your sorces for each post. I completely agree on your thoughts about the importance of mathematics. It is everywhere, even the simplest thing like counting a number is mathematics. It makes us better people and without it, life would be a lot worse
ReplyDeleteI do not really think that mathematicians help in the growth of Singapore's economy. Economists do that. Anyway, your post is quite interesting as I have not really thought about how maths help in the growth in Singapore. Thanks for your invaluable insight for me.
ReplyDelete-Joshua ;D