This document discusses the importance of math and how the world would be without it. It provides a brief timeline of math throughout history starting 70,000 BCE. The author argues that if we didn't have math, we wouldn't have many modern technologies and conveniences. While some people dislike math, it is essential and impacts nearly all areas of life, including human bodies, finances, and technology. The document suggests increasing access to math education globally by building more schools.
2. Intro
I am researching math; what math does,
when it started, why we need it, and all
about it.
3. Overview
Math is important, now I know many people
hate math but if we didn’t have math we
wouldn’t have anything. Try to think of
some thing that doesn’t use math.
4. Timeline
• 70,000 BCE South Africa, rocks were scratched with
geometric patterns.
• 1000 BCE Fractions used by the Egyptians, but only one
unit fractions were used i.e. ½ 1/3 ¼
• 1st century The earliest reference to square roots of
negative numbers.
• 1579 François Vieta used a 393,216-sided polygon to
figure out the first ten digits of Pi.
• 2002 Yousama Kanada and a team of 12 more compute
Pi to 1241.1 billion digits using a Hitachi 64-node
supercomputer.
5. Worst areas
• Some areas where people don’t focus on
math as much as people in the U.S.A
could be any where that does not have
money for school or school’s that don’t
have money.
6. Compare and Contrast
• Math in the past is the same as math now
because we had to remember stuff. There
different because we have more
technology than is 70,000 BCE.
7. Solutions
• We could fix math by having the
government build schools for other
countries and the countries relive the debt
that we owe them.
8. Personal connections
• I think math is fun but some times math is
so boring, like when you have to do stuff
you did 2 years ago. The parts of math I
like are Group Theory and Topology.
9. Human Impact
• Math affects the human body because
they will not know how to do certain
things.
