Daniela Ortiz
Soccer a great game full of skills, but you might be thinking how does soccer relate to math. Well, let’s take a moment and think about it. In soccer and every other sport uses math. Like for example, we can see how geometry plays a big role in soccer because it involves shapes, measurements and area. Let’s think of the field first. Symmetry plays an important role so each half must have identical measurement. The soccer field also involves others shapes like circles, corner area, halfway line, or the goal area. If we think about the soccer ball we can see how the ball have shapes in it also. It has hexagons and pentagons shapes. During the soccer game we can see how the soccer players have to determine their angles in other make their passes right. Not only they measure the angles to pass the ball but also they have to measure the angle to make a goal. Not only the players have to measure the angles, but also the goalie need to measure the distance and the angle in order to stop the ball. Now we can see how math plays a role into soccer. Just like math is in soccer, it can be in every other sport like basketball or volleyball.
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Most people think that when you get out of school, they’ll never have to use math again. This isn’t true, however. You use math everyday. One event you use math for is when you decorate your home. If you need to buy new carpet, you have to see how many square feet you’ll need, so you know how much you’ll spend. Another example of using math when you decorate your home, is if you are going to put in a swimming pool. You first need to see if your backyard is big enough to put a swimming pool in, and then how much the company charges to put in a pool of your needed size. You also use math to plan any type of party. A dinner party, for example, needs to be planned out. Questions you need to ask yourself include: How many guests are coming? How much food will they eat? How much will that food cost? All of these questions can be answered once you realise that using math is inevitable. If you have to host a dinner party, you must first find out how many people are coming. Then you have to find out how much food the average person is going to eat, and multiply that by how many people are going to be at the party. If you are concerned about how much money will be spent, all you have to do is figure out how much one meal costs, and multiply it by how many people are going to be at the party. As you can see, you don’t even need to leave your house to do math. So be sure to save a seat for Mr. Math at your party! Nichol Olmsted While people mainly focus on the real-life applications of mathematics as something used in engineering and architecture, many do not think that they use math in their everyday lives. However, this is not the case. Math can be found all over everyday life, one example being cooking. Math is a very important part of cooking, requiring many basic concepts in order for a recipe to turn out right. When creating recipes, it is required to know measurement, addition, proportions, and multiplication. For example, when making pancakes, you want to make sure that your batter has a proper consistency. With too much flour, your pancakes will be too thick and inedible. With too much liquid, such as water or milk, the pancakes will not be able to stay together. In some situations, conversion from different forms of measurement could be required. If a recipe is in metric and your utensils are in imperial measurement, it is required to covert them. This also applies to temperatures, as Celsius and Fahrenheit are very different in scale. The effects of math in cooking are obvious, as long as you pay attention to what you are doing. Of course, you could always just wing it. David Cully As most of you probably know, I like to do photoshop, designs, and 3D models. But, what a lot of you don’t know is the amount of time I do solving geometric equations to complete a problem. For the majority of the time, I use the Pythagorean theorem or basic trigonometry. There have been a few occasions where I have had to find an arc length or two. One example is the picture, a model of Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber. All of the ridges (Painted black and silver) that are on there were solved mathematically. The blueprints that I used did not provide exact measurements and angles for them, so I used Pythagorean Theorem and law of sines to find out what the specific measurements it took to make them. Here is the Math for how I designed the angles for the top part of the lightsaber James Davis
Money is something that everyone has used in their life since the day they were born. The medical bill that came from the hospital of your birthplace is money that was used for your purpose. You will continue to use money every day of your life until the day that you die. There are hundreds of ways to calculate money and keep track of it. It can be as simple as subtracting a $15 total from a twenty-dollar bill, but it can be a little bit more complicated also like calculating interest and percentages. You will most likely keep a check book when you get a career to track every penny that you spend. Money is a very important part of life and you will use math to calculate your spending, every day of your life. Holden Jones Ever wonder what your batting average is? Or maybe what your favorite team’s probability of winning may be. Math is within all sports; baseball fans and players know all about statistics such as batting averages, pitcher's earned run average, and surprisingly, win-loss probabilities. Runners, bikers, and even sailors often have charts to track their progress; and, the most well known mathematical situation in sports, the velocity and parabola needed for a basketball to make it into the hoop. In cases such as sports, math may not seem very significant, opposed to the common math problems we complete in math class. But, it is far more important than made out to be; in the aspect of statistics, math is most favorable. It is a necessity for coaches to be aware of statistics of players for many reasons. In the sense of baseball, coaches should know batting averages, probability of players getting a hit, and the probability of a player stopping a ball. This way, the coach can position the players in such order which would benefit the team most. In this case, it would also help coaches from other sports such as football or soccer to determine positioning of the players. Math also comes into play when determining how far to throw, kick, or when to hit a ball. For example, a batter may determine that he or she must hit a ball at 118 feet per second, this is about 81 miles per hour, in order to hit a homerun when hitting from a 40 degree angle. This can also be developed in basketball; a player can figure to make a three point shot, he/she must shoot the ball at about 28 feet per second or 19 miles per hour. As you can see, considering math within your game may lead you to a win! Riley Howell Ellipses are reflective. Does this mean you can look at an ellipse and see your reflection? Well, not technically. However "when a ray leaves one of the foci and meets a point on that ellipse, it will reflect off of the ellipse and pass through the other focus." This rule works with sound and with light, although the material would have to be able to reflect light instead of absorb it. But, this all doesn't just work with ellipses. Circles can function using the same properties too. This is evident, for example, in the Whispering Gallery of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. In the gallery, someone on one side of the dome, on one end of the circle, can be heard clearly across the room on the side exactly opposite that someone. It works something like this: The reason why this works is because, as shown in the picture, the sound hugs the walls of the circle, reflecting off of it, and taking an efficient path to the listener. Little energy is lost. If you try to move closer to hear better, the sound will actually fade because you will be further away from the wall, where the sound ends up. Pretty weird right?
Peter Melhaff When you're listening to music do you think math being connected to it? Probably not. Well I might ruin that for you. Let me introduce you to the math theory. The math theory is the number of possibility and practices based on how musicians compose music. Counting, rhymes, scales, intervals etc., everything that makes up music also creates an infinite amount of possibilities of music. This theory is not new. It’s been research for years. In ancient greek researches mainly the Pythagoreans Philolaus and Archytas were the first one to identify the expression of musical scales in terms of numerical ratios. This means they were know for discovering that each key was a ratio within an octave. It now seems like common sense. Time and meter also shows the importance in music as well as in astronomy. The exact measurement of time, development of of counting and arithmetic is fundamental to physics. "There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres." — Pythagoras -See more at http://www.ams.org/samplings/math-and-music#sthash.ktJY1C7X.dpuf Amanda Portillo Christ Casidsid Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds (DMS) have long been useful when travelling on the ocean. Many sailors use this to pinpoint coordinates onto a certain location-- along with other measuring instruments, of course. First of all, the latitude must be found, which are invisible lines running along horizontally on the Earth. They are split in half on the equator, travelling upwards and downwards in either 10° or 30° increments. The highest is 90° located on the North Pole and Antarctica. As for longitude, they run vertically along the Earth, divided by the Prime Meridian. They can also be found to be divided into 10° or 30° increments, stopping at 180°. The Cardinal Compass is also used for determining where a location lies on a standard map, as well as navigating through the seas in which way the ship should travel. ( "Understanding Latitude and Longitude." Understanding Latitude and Longitude. Annenberg Learner. Web. 08 Apr. 2016. <http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/LongitudeIntro.html>) Now that the basics are out of the way, let’s read the map using the address below as an example: 700 N. Herman Street, Goldsboro, NC 27530, USA ( "Get Latitude and Longitude." Latitude and Longitude Finder on Map Get Coordinates. Web. 08 Apr. 2016. <http://www.latlong.net/c/?lat=35.386423>) As you can see from the screenshot above, the latitude is 35° 23’ 11.1228” N. Looking back at the diagram for latitude and longitude, the location is in the northern hemisphere and lies on the 35° line with 23’ (also read as 23 minutes) and 11.1228” (also read as 11.1228 seconds). The longitude is 77° 58’ 47.0712” W, in other words, it is located in the western side from the Prime Meridian. This location sits on 77° with 58’ (also read as 58 minutes) and 47.0712” (also read as 47.0712 seconds). Quick! The captain beckons your help in navigating! Now go out there and explore the world, fellow sailor! Do you ever think, why do we have to learn about triangles there is really nothing in life that I'm going to need triangle to solve. So I have a theory maybe, just maybe the math teachers made a deal with the devil and in exchange we have to learn about triangles. SO BASICALLY ALL TEACHERS ARE IN ILLUMINATI. They call it trigonometry, I think it's a trap to pull us into making a deal with the devil and joining illuminati. You really don't notice it because they don't use equilateral triangles they use isosceles triangles. W use it when we are using sine. Cosine and tangent and you would never really think, this relates to illuminati because they aren't equilateral triangles they are different. Now that I have said it, I have you thinking, next time you see something that's really out of the ordinary from your teacher and they start teaching about triangles. Remember illuminati confirmed. Xaviera Pride |
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