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What Mathematics in The Modern World Taught Me

The document discusses lessons learned from a mathematics course. The author found Polya's method of problem solving to be the most beneficial lesson, as it taught them to view problems as something to face rather than fear. Polya's method involves understanding the problem, devising a plan to solve it, carrying out the plan, and verifying the solution works. This teaches that problems do not always have immediate solutions and may require trying multiple approaches. The author believes this lesson can help solve both academic and real-world problems, and counters the idea that mathematics lessons cannot be applied outside the classroom.

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What Mathematics in The Modern World Taught Me

The document discusses lessons learned from a mathematics course. The author found Polya's method of problem solving to be the most beneficial lesson, as it taught them to view problems as something to face rather than fear. Polya's method involves understanding the problem, devising a plan to solve it, carrying out the plan, and verifying the solution works. This teaches that problems do not always have immediate solutions and may require trying multiple approaches. The author believes this lesson can help solve both academic and real-world problems, and counters the idea that mathematics lessons cannot be applied outside the classroom.

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Maderazo, Dheine Louise L.

ModMath

BSA-A1C

What Mathematics in the Modern World Taught Me

Learning is such an essential part of our journey in life—it starts even before we
go to school, and doesn’t stop even if we graduate and finish school. In fact, everyone
in our lives is a teacher, who eventually teaches us a lesson, but we just don’t know it
yet. We learn from everything and it’s important that such new profound knowledge that
we learn shall not only remain in our heads but should be applied in our daily lives. This
course was one of those subjects that taught us that the lessons we learned in school
are not and should not only be contained in the four corners of the room but should go
beyond that and be brought out to the real world.

Thinking about and looking back at the past few lessons that we have discussed
and encountered in this course, I can say that there were a lot of things that I should
take note of and keep in mind because they can be helpful in reality. However, among
all those lessons, the one I found most beneficial in real life is the art of problem solving
(Polya’s). It made me realized how problems, no matter how confusing and difficult it
might get, always have a solution, and can be resolved. It taught me that I should not
see problems as something I should fear and turn my back on, but something I should
face instead. It also taught me that finding answers or solutions to the problems that I
face are not instant—not an immediate action. We can’t get answers in just one snap,
and especially not when we start to give up easily. Polya’s art of problem solving taught
me that I should first understand the problem—instead of immediately saying that it’s a
hard one to resolve, I should think, and try to understand. After understanding the
problem, I would be able to come up with plans on how to solve it, and I should try and
apply it. The last step is to look back—to see if the plan that I formed would really be the
solution that I was looking for. However, I should take note that the first solutions that I
might devise are not always the ones that would work out. We don’t always get the
answers in our first try. This is why the last step is being made, because if it didn’t work
out, we can go back to step number one, and try to understand. I really think that this
would be very helpful, not only in solving the problems given to us in our exams and
quizzes, but it also serves as a huge lesson that everyone should know, not only us
students who took this course. From this, I really hope people would stop saying that
the lessons that we learn in Mathematics cannot be applied in real life, because they
are wrong.

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