Math in Daily Activities Cooking When you cook, you need to measure the ingredients in terms of teaspoon, tablespoon,

ounces, grams, kilograms, etc If you are preparing meals for many people, you will need to convert all the measurements accordingly. Messing up with the measurements can result in disastrous meals. Grocery Shopping Im sure when you go grocery shopping youll check the price tags of each item before putting them into the cart. Imagine going to the counter and seeing a bill beyond your budget! How embarrassing! You also have to consider discounts. Meaning you need math to calculate the total amount you have to pay and the money saved. Diet People who are overweight need to be conscious of their calorie intake. Especially if they are on special weight loss diets, knowledge of math is needed to calculate the total amount of calories consumed in one day, one week and one month. Budget Here is where math can help prevent you from landing yourself and your family in soup! Just imagine, not knowing how much money you have and how much you are allowed to spend is a definite way of landing yourself in the lap of credit. Even if you do not pay the electricity bill, water bill or cable TV bills, one bill that you definitely cannot escape is the restaurant bill. Restaurants are places where your math knowledge becomes so useful. Building Things Math is vital in building anything from a piece of furniture to some major building project. Measurements act guidelines for building. Imagine trying to build a house or even a bed without measurements. It's not possible at all! Work Math is needed everywhere people work irrespective of the field of work you are employed in. Besides the business analysts, bank officials and financial accountants that need to be competent in math. We all require math to calculate our targets, salaries and most

important of all, leave status! Visiting a Foreign Country When you go abroad for a holiday, it is important that you have knowledge of currency conversion, because only by converting it back into your currency will you know if something is expensive for your budget or not. But if you can't convert currencies, you will never know if you were getting it cheaper. As you can see it is important to teach the significance of math in our daily life to kids so that they will understand that learning math is important for their lives and is not a subject that they are being forced to learn. One good way is to ask them to write an essay about importance of math in our daily life to increase their awareness of the importance of math!

chemistry
Matter is anything that occupies space and has rest mass (or invariant mass). It is a general term for the substance of which all physical objects consist.[1]HYPERLINK \l "cite_notemcgrawhill-1"[2] Typically, matter includes atoms and other particles which have mass. Mass is said by some to be the amount of matter in an object and volume is the amount of space occupied by an object, but this definition confuses mass and matter, which are not the same.[3] Different fields use the term in different and sometimes incompatible ways; there is no single agreed scientific meaning of the word "matter," even though the term "mass" is better-defined. Contrary to the previous view that equates mass and matter, a major difficulty in defining matter consists in deciding what forms of energy (all of which have mass) are not matter. In general, massless particles such as photons and gluons are not considered forms of matter, even though when these particles are trapped in systems at rest, they contribute energy and mass to them. For example, almost 99% of the mass of ordinary atomic matter consists of mass associated with the energy contributed by the gluons and the kinetic energy of the quarks which make up nucleons. In this view, most of the mass of ordinary "matter" consists of mass which is not contributed by matter particles.

For much of the history of the natural sciences people have contemplated the exact nature of matter. The idea that matter was built of discrete building blocks, the so-called particulate theory of matter, was first put forward by the Greek philosophers Leucippus (~490 BC) and Democritus (~470380 BC).[4] Over time an increasingly fine structure for matter was discovered: objects are made from molecules, molecules consist of atoms, which in turn consist of interacting subatomic particles like protons and electrons. [5]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-Hooft-5"[6] Matter is commonly said to exist in four states (or phases): solid, liquid, gas and plasma. However, advances in experimental techniques have realized other phases, previously only theoretical constructs, such as BoseEinstein condensates and fermionic condensates. A focus on an elementary-particle view of matter also leads to new phases of matter, such as the quarkgluon plasma.[7] In physics and chemistry, matter exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties, the so-called waveparticle duality.[8]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-Weinberg8"[9]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-Masujima-9"[10] In the realm of cosmology, extensions of the term matter are invoked to include dark matter and dark energy, concepts introduced to explain some odd phenomena of the observable universe, such as the galactic rotation curve. These exotic forms of "matter" do not refer to matter as "building blocks", but rather to currently poorly understood forms of mass and energy.[11]

compounds

A chemical compound is a pure chemical substance consisting of two or more different chemical elementsHYPERLINK \l "cite_note-Brown_p.6-0"[1]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-Hill_p.6-1"[2]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-Whitten_p.15-2"[3] that can be separated into simpler substances by chemical reactions.[4] Chemical compounds have a unique and defined chemical structure; they consist of a fixed ratio of atoms[3] that are held together in a defined spatial arrangement by chemical bonds. Chemical compounds can be molecular compounds held together by covalent bonds, salts held together by ionic bonds, intermetallic compounds held together by metallic bonds, or complexes held together by coordinate covalent bonds. Pure chemical elements are not considered chemical compounds, even if they consist of molecules which contain only multiple atoms of a single element (such as H2, S8, etc.),[5] which are called diatomic molecules or polyatomic molecules.

hmogenous

Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts relating to the uniformity or lack thereof in a substance. A material that is homogeneous is uniform in composition or character; one that is heterogeneous lacks uniformity in one of these qualities.[1]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-Heterogeneous-1"[2]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-homogeneous-1913and19282"[3] The concepts are applicable to every level of complexity, from atoms to populations of animals or people, to galaxies[clarification needed]. Hence, a substance may be homogeneous on a larger scale, compared to being heterogeneous on a smaller scale within the same substance. This is known as an effective medium approach, or effective medium approximations.[4]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-Effective-medium-4"[5]

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[hide] 1 Heterogeneity 2 3 3.1 Homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions

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[edit] Heterogeneity
Heterogeneity is the state of being heterogeneous. It is the nature of opposition, or contrariety of qualities. Pertaining to the sciences, it is a substance that is diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts. In other words, it is composed of dissimilar parts, hence the constituents are of a different kind. The parts (or constituents) are connected, and of a conglomerate mass, and viewed in respect to the parts of which it is made up. [1]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-Heterogeneous-1"[2] Various disciplines understand heterogeneity, or being heterogeneous, in different ways. For example: In physics, it is understood as having more than one phase (solid, liquid, gas)

present in a system or process.[citation needed] In chemistry, a heterogeneous material consists of either or both of a) multiple states of matter or b) hydrophilic and hydrophobic substances in one mixture; an example of the latter would be a mixture of water, octane, and silicone grease. With information technology (see:Heterogeneous computing) it means a network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture. Alternatively, a data resource with multiple types of formats.[citation needed] In sociology it may refer to a society or group that includes individuals of differing ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, sexes, or ages.[citation needed] (geology) are inherently heterogeneous, usually occurring at the micro-scale and mini-scale.[4]

[edit] Homogeneity
Homogeneity is the state of being homogeneous. Pertaining to the sciences, it is a substance where all the constituents are of the same nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature. For example, homogeneous particles, homogeneous elements, homogeneous principles, or homogeneous bodies; or (algebra) possessing the same number of factors of a given kind as with a homogeneous polynomial.[3]

[edit] Chemistry
Main article: Homogenization (chemistry) A heterogeneous mixture is a mixture of two or more compounds. Examples are: mixtures of sand and water or sand and iron filings, a conglomerate rock, water and oil, a salad, trail mix, and concrete (not cement).[6] During the sampling of heterogeneous mixtures of particles, the variance of the sampling error is generally non-zero. Gy's sampling theory [7] quantitatively defines the heterogeneity of a particle as:

where

, and

are respectively: the heterogeneity of the

th particle of the population, the mass concentration of the property of interest in the

th particle of the population, the mass concentration of the property of interest in the population, the mass of the

th particle in the population, and the average mass of a particle in the population. Homogenization is the process of causing a heterogeneous mixture to become homogeneous, as is done with the making of homogenized milk.

[edit] Homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions

Homogeneous reactions are chemical reactions in which the reactants are in the same phase, while heterogeneous reactions have reactants in two or more phases. Reactions that take place on the surface of a catalyst of a different phase are also heterogeneous. A reaction between two gases, two liquids or two solids is homogeneous. A reaction between a gas and a liquid, a gas and a solid or a liquid and a solid is heterogeneous.[citation needed] A mixture can be determined to be homogeneous when everything is settled and equal, and the liquid, gas, object is one color or the same form. Various models have been proposed to model the concentrations in different phases. The phenomena to be considered are mass rates and reaction rates. Surface area affects the reaction rate of heterogeneous reactions but not homogeneous reactions.[citation needed]