How does mathematics affect your life? - Answers

Mathematics is used in various applications that impact on your daily life. The most basic of all is going to the shop and purchasing something, you need to see how much an item is, whether you have enough money and ensure that you have the correct change once you have paid for it. On more sublime level, pretty much every engineered product that you see in everyday life owes its existence in some part to mathematics or the use of mathematical formula to bring it into existence. Mathematics is used to calculate the variables in the construction of your house, how your alarm clock works in the morning, how your computer and telephone work, how your car works and how safely it operates, how strong the bridge is that you drive your car over, the angle of the bridge trusses etc. Not everyone appreciates or even understands the various formula that work their way into everyday life. The easiest way to comprehend this is to take a simple engineered object and see how it was built, what is made of and how it works. By doing this you can quickly appreciate how mathematics impacts daily life.