IS MATHEMATICS REALLY DIFFICULT?

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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.