The article brings up a few points that I’ve never thought of before that I find intriguing. First of all the idea of Mathematics being very much integrated into our society but yet seemingly so invisible. It seems that although Math is very much in economics, weather predictions, employment rates and even sports stats, the subject still isn’t something that appeals to the masses. Like I’ve mentioned before through interviews with Math teachers, a lot of people are very much capable of being good, working citizens by knowing up to say grade 7 Math, that is simple arithmetic and a bit of fractions. For the most part other than economics and a bit of probability in prediction of weather, the list mentioned above does not require too much Math. The more intriguing part of the article is more of the process of learning Math, than the actual Math itself. Math is a lot of problem solving and translating that to students is very important in become a functioning citizen. Learning to investigate problems and explain the process of solving it is more vital to the education of the students rather than the answers itself. This I agree with a lot, especially since in our society, there are many ways to solve problems that come up without one proper answer and it is important for people to investigate and explain why they think there’s a certain way of solving that problem. So that’s where high school math I think applies more to citizenship. Not in functioning in society with what math they learned in high school, but the process of thinking through and explaining the way to solve a problem. High school math offers a wider range of questions that students can think through and in the long run will help them in the way they go about solving problems and tasks when they become working citizens of society.
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