Math


 * Why Math?**

· The level of understanding math is different for every person.


 * Is it there to be discovered?**

· Math is just another way to look at the world. So everything is already there, therefore, math, a way of seeing the world, is technically already there.


 * Are we imposing something on what we experience?**

· Yes, because we try to explain, through interpretation by language, a specific experience that enables you to develop on a mathematical concept. · Dividing a pizza into halves, quarters, and eighths, you do not understand


 * Why teach it?**

· Math should be taught in order t o develop on our understanding of the world. Since math is a universal language then it is beneficial for everyone to communicate and share possibly revolutionizing ideas.


 * When stop teaching math?**

· We should n ever stop teaching math because math is, as I have stated before, a way of interpreting the world. Therefore, if we are capable of mastering this method then the human race will be superior to even its enemies. Math is needed everywhere, but math is not applied as strict as the textbook and therefore results in not having math being taught throughout life. Nonetheless, math should be taught and reminded throughout life.

**__Measureable?__** Math is said to be everywhere we look. What is math? Math can be defined as a way of interpreting the world around us. It is another language that one uses in order to understand things and how they work. However, does everything truly need math to help understand something? Things that can be measured are almost everything. This ranges from the simplest of objects to the even more complex objects. Even concepts are understood through math rather than plain language. For example, Newton’s second law of motion is simply F=ma where the mathematical variables of //a// and //m// are used in order to evaluate //F.// If math is understood as another language then it can almost be used everywhere. Everything can be measured, however, how we measure it is another question. Nothing is immeasurable because when measuring something we are simply finding a way to understand it. For example, how can we determine that sound is loud or soft? Math can measure the intensity of such a sound and that can tell you what is loud and what is not. At the same time if my ears hurt then I know that the sound is loud and yet I have not used math to conclude that. On the other hand, I have used a type of measurement to conclude that the sound is loud, not a mathematical method but a practical measurement of my ear. People relate measuring with numbers and variables when it can simply be an instinctive feeling and determination. Moreover, the idea of measuring is a way of determining. For example, when I catch a ball my mind does calculations and measures the ball and its project path and so on. However, I do not sit down and literally write down an equation and solve in a mathematical way the measurement of the ball’s final position. Again my measurement was different to that of the advanced arithmetic way and yet the ball was still measured. Everything can be measured but not everything IS measured or has to be measured in a mathematical way.

Love is… Affection Intense feeling Passion Selfless LOVE! Candleman Sacrifice From your heart
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 * sound || - ||
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 * love || - ||
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 * Time || - ||
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 * Weight || - ||
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Love is not… Hate Indifference Joke Defined Depressing Limited Generic Sacrifice

Paragraph: · To measure something what is required? · Is measurement comprehended rationally or empirically? · What is measureable, what is not? · Why are things measureable? · What is required to make a measure? · Is there a difference between measureable and quantifiable? · Once things are quantified, what is required to make the data “useful”? · How do you define the idea of utility (usefulness)? · When we look at data, what are we looking for?

Measurement

“An experiment is a question, which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.” (Max Plank). Measurement is everywhere and everything can be measured. Nothing is immeasurable. Measurement is seen as a way of understanding something. For example, if room temperature is 30 degrees Celsius, one can know that the room’s air particles have an average kinetic energy of 30 degrees Celsius; at the same time one can say the room’s temperature is 303 degrees Kelvin. In both cases the room’s temperature was measured however in each case there was different method that was approached.

One may see that measurement is always looked through numbers and math. What do numbers represent? Numbers are another language, which helps interpret things around us and help us analyze and understand concepts. From this one can conclude that math is then another language that interprets things. The world we live in is filled with so many things that we could not understand with simple words and math has helped us develop an understanding in another language. For example, could man actually understand how fast an object is traveling by only saying fast, really fast, or super fast? Or would saying 50 mph, 100 mph, or 1,000 mph be easier? Math helps ease out our interpretation of a measurement. Even when one says fast or really fast a form of measurement has been taken into account. Does measurement always need numbers? Of course it does not because when one measures something he is clearly comparing something to another thing. For example, if one measures the length of an object he compares that length to the length of the ruler and can conclude that the object has a length of x.

Everything is measureable because everything can be compared to something. For example, is love measureable? Of course it is measureable because one can compare love to a scale where the biggest amount of love that is indescribable is 10 and no love at all is 0 on a scale 0-10. One can measure the amount love however; it is relative from person to person. Emotions are things that take on a relative point of view and for that reason one may argue that an emotion is immeasurable. On the contrary to measure something one can compare it to something else. So love may not be referred to a scale of 0-10 but may also be measured by comparing. For example, a boy may love his friend and then sees a beautiful looking girl and say he loves her. The boy has measured his love by comparing a friend to a beautiful girl, different measures of love have been concluded by the boy. Emotions can be measured but how they are measured is arguable.

There are some arguments where there has to be something that cannot be measureable but the fact is there will always be a way to measure something. For instance, I was posed with a question that asked “Can you measure space?!”. Space is vast and one may argue that due to its infinite vastness one is unable to measure it. However, everything is measureable and one can say that space has a unit of one and this unit can be compared to many things. One unit of space is like one whole pie, if the pie is divided into an infinite amount of pieces there is still one pie. Space is divided into a countless amount of things from the celestial bodies, to the trees and birds, and to even the limitless amount of electrons and protons. One can measure space by comparing it to the Big Bang theory and explain its measurement with red and blue shifts and rates of change of stars and their expansion and contraction. There are different ways in measuring things that seem immeasurable.

Overall, math is a language that interprets things we cannot explain simply by words. Also, math is not the only way to measure and comprehend things, for everything can be compared and everything can be placed on a scale and therefore everything can be measured.

19-20th Century Math - (Things math has done)
It has:
 * become simpler
 * become more complex
 * provides answers
 * helped explain how things work
 * creates understanding
 * shows how reality can be quantified
 * Reality cannot be completely described by mathematicians
 * Math is a model of reality
 * not all people use math to explain reality (or understand reality using math)
 * Math has created weapons
 * E=mc^2
 * math is a language
 * communication - understanding

Article:

Notes:


 * decoding images on the computer took ten years at first now with the advancement it only takes a week.
 * The world is contains an imaginably huge amount of digital information and this info just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
 * the fast growing field of information, if well managed, the data can open new doors in fields like economy.
 * However there is a problem because the information exceeds the data storage.
 * Information is made up of a collection of data.
 * Todays algorithms and powerful computers can reveal new insights that would have previously remained hidden.
 * Business such as Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and sap, have been buying a worth of $15 million on buying software firms on data management and analytics.
 * The business of information management is worth more than $100 billion and is still increasing, all of this is due to the amount of data out there.
 * Reasons for information "explosion"
 * technology
 * many more people who interact with information
 * software programs are getting better
 * vast amount of information is shared.
 * As the world is becoming increasingly digital, aggregating and analyzing data is likely to bring huge benefits to other fields as well.
 * Too much or big data can have consequences too like, financial crisis.
 * The way that information is managed touches all areas of life.

Questions:

What does the article tell us about data in the 21st century?

What one can conclude form the reading is that data has been increasing rapidly and is constantly exceeding at a high rate. As we develop in technology the amount of information is too vast to keep up. Data is information and therefore with technology and more people interacting we have seen data capacity soar. In the 21st century data is growing very fast will continue to grow.

Points to share:


 * The amount of data being transferred nowadays is too much. What drives people to use so much data?
 * The advancement in technology has been exponential, only 30 years ago were computers the size of rooms now they can be as small as hand held. Why has it taken this long for the human race to progress at a faster rate? Humans have been around for thousands and thousands of years so why has it only been in the 20th century that we become this advanced? Why wasn't there technology like this at least a hundred years ago if now we can advance so fast?
 * Curiosity is a main human characteristic, is this what drives people to advance in Technology? Is it the only thing?
 * The amount of data that there is can cause disasters like financial crisis. Is too much data bad? If there is too much information what will happen, will it cause people to doublethink and cause contradict some information? Since there are different points of views on things can information truly be trust worthy?
 * The Data out there in the real world is not trust worthy due to the amount of different inputs. For example, someone photoshops a picture of a skinny person and makes them fat, this image is then looked at by different people and they will believe that the skinny person is actually fat. For that reason and many other examples like that cause data to not be trust worthy.
 * The amount of data in the real world is impossible to grasp due to the capability of the human mind to think. Information in the real world is too much and no form of technology will ever be capable to hold such amount of memory.