MATHS IN DAILY LIFE

1.Math comes in handy when travelling and shows up in various ways from estimating the amount of fuel you’ll need to planning out a trip based on miles per hour and distance traveled. Calculating fuel usage is crucial to long distance travel. Without it, you may find yourself stranded without gas or on the road for much longer than anticipated. You may also use math throughout the trip by paying for tolls, counting exit numbers, checking tire pressure, etc.

Long before GPS and Google Maps, people used atlases, paper road maps, road signs, or asked for directions in order to navigate throughout the country’s highways and byways. Reading a map is almost a lost art, but requires just a little time, orientation, and some basic math fundamentals. Teaching students how to use their math skills to read maps will make them safer travellers and less dependent on technology.

In order to use any map, you must first orient yourself, meaning to find your current position on the map. This will be point A. The simplest way to do this is to locate the town you’re in then the nearby crossroads, intersection or an easily identifiable point such as a bridge, building, or highway entrance. Once you’ve established a starting point, locate where on you want to go (point B). Now you can determine the best route depending on terrain, speed limit, etc.

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Daytime Navigation: In the Northern Hemisphere, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Depending on the time of day, you can orient yourself based on the sun’s position in the sky. This gets a bit trickier around midday as the sun appears directly overhead at noon. The earth’s rotation around the sun and sun’s position overhead is also the basis for the sundial, Man’s first clock.

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https://www.thinkthroughmath.com/math-real-life-examples/