DIMACULANGAN, BLESSLY ANNE B.

GEd 102
ChE 1102 Learning Activity 1.1

Guide Question: What aspect of the lesson significantly changed your view about
mathematics?

Mathematics for Everyone

Just hearing the mere word “mathematics” makes me shiver in fear. I have always
thought that this course is only for geniuses—people who are capable of handling the
combination of stress and fear that it brings. Hence, it is introduced in my system that “I
am not a math person.” In my 18 years of existence, I have never thought that allowing
myself to empty my cup and subject myself into the bubble of this lesson will widen my
horizon and changed my perceived idea that math is only for geniuses and turn it into a
dynamic concept that it is for everyone.

Mathematics brings multitude of utilizations in different aspects of our life—may it

be in our personal or daily living and even in our professional identities. The need to
simply measure the right ingredients to cook homely food and basically knowing
mathematical operations in order to survive doing groceries and other daily tasks are
already application of mathematics that anyone can do. To practicing applied math for
our professional life and jobs such as innovating medicines, building infrastructures,
creating artworks, and digesting financial reports in commerce. With these evidences,
mathematics is indeed for everyone.

Believe it or not, learning and knowing mathematics are inevitable. It may be hard
when advancing to complex principles yet it will always in anyway be of use for everyone.
The term “math person” is not limiting the population of who can do math because as long
as the presence of human society and the need to survive exists, mathematics will be
limitless and available for each and every one of us.

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