Necessities of Mathematics
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Mathematics is important for everyone to know. Just to get a minimum wage job at Subway you have to answer math questions on the back of the application. They want to make sure you're not going to mess up and give someone the wrong amount of change making the register short at the end of the day. That is their money lost and possibly your job as well.
Math is used in everything we do, at the grocery store, the gas station, Burger King and even while driving a car. We just don't realize how much math is incorporated into our everyday lives.
Without basic math skills we wouldn't be able to balance our check books, invest in stocks, or even manage our household budget. And forget reading bill statements, what if the bill collectors made a mistake and charged too much to your account? Since you didn't have the knowledge of how all those numbers come together on your statement you will in turn lose money you shouldn't have paid in the first place.
People don't realize how much they use math because we use it subconsciously...