Why I love math
A short essay I wrote months ago about what I like about math
Whenever I arrived at school, I was always excited for one class - math. Even when I became homeschooled, I was always excited to work on math. If you ever asked me what my favorite subject area was, the answer was always math throughout my elementary, middle, and high school education. Whether it be the excitement of learning multiplication facts for the first time, learning how to logically prove that two triangles were congruent in geometry, or analyzing the behavior of a sine function, math has always interested and fascinated me. This is because math is a necessity, being practical and used in the entire world around us.
Regardless of what career field you choose, math is a very important skill to have. Every career field I have considered at this point involves math in one way or another. While the involvement of math in careers such as optometry and computer science is more upfront, even theologians and pastors still need an understanding of math. This is one reason that I love math because it is important. Our society could not function properly without it. Imagine how difficult it would be to buy groceries without mathematics - in fact, it would likely be impossible. Without an understanding of numbers, addition, and subtraction you would not understand how to pay the cashier and they would not understand how to return any change.
This, however, is only the surface. Without math, we would not be able to model how satellites (whether natural or artificial) orbit our earth and would have never been able to grasp sending humans and other objects into outer space. Without math, this essay would have never even been typed because the very machine you are using to read this is built on the idea of computation. Computers are basically glorified calculators that have been leveraged to be able to complete many more tasks than your handheld ones. The list could go on from keeping track of time and commuting from one place to another to modeling the elliptical orbit of the Earth around the sun and making calculations concerning a chemical reaction. This is why I love math. It is crucial to every task and job that needs to be done. Our world would certainly not be the same without mathematics.