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BY ANIEKWE BLESSING
MATHEMATICS!
What a name. This course has been a source of worry to many students, to some,
it is their worst nightmare. Many students avoided studying some courses in the
institution of higher learning because calculation (mathematics) is involved.
By the way, what is mathematics? According Wiktionary, it is
an abstract representation system used in the study of numbers, shapes,
structure, change and the relationship between these concepts. Also it is a
person’s ability to count, calculate and use different system of mathematics at
different levels. From this definition, especially the last one, it is very
possible to say that man was created together with the knowledge of
mathematics. Even our fore-fathers without going to school were able to count
and calculate things in their own ways and levels.
Every day in our lives, we come in contact with mathematics. We
cannot run away from it once we wake up every day, we try to calculate how our
day will be. At the end of the day, we calculate what we achieved and what we
did not achieve. It is not about been educated or not. One who thought he can
run away from mathematics (calculation) will continue to lose things even his
life. Though there are advanced mathematics, but everyone is endowed with basic
mathematics.
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