In school it is taught as if they have nothing to do with each other. When they teach math, they seem to give us random problems that have nothing to do with anything but math that's done purely for math's sake.
When they teach us science, there's some math involved but it's more about about making observations on how things work in the natural world. Plus there's more reading involved.
I love science, and although my math isn't perfect, I've gotten better at it. I want to be a meteorologist, but when I try to make the connection between math and science, it feels like there's a missing link. The math skills that are drilled into our heads seem to do nothing to help me when it's time to apply them. Word problems and science experiments seem to help with that, though they can be more challenging, probably because we rarely get a chance to practice it.
The point is, why do we learn so many complicated things in school, only to have trouble later when we try to apply them or make connections?
When they teach us science, there's some math involved but it's more about about making observations on how things work in the natural world. Plus there's more reading involved.
I love science, and although my math isn't perfect, I've gotten better at it. I want to be a meteorologist, but when I try to make the connection between math and science, it feels like there's a missing link. The math skills that are drilled into our heads seem to do nothing to help me when it's time to apply them. Word problems and science experiments seem to help with that, though they can be more challenging, probably because we rarely get a chance to practice it.
The point is, why do we learn so many complicated things in school, only to have trouble later when we try to apply them or make connections?
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You're still in high school it sounds like. Once you get to college you'll see the correlation between math and science. For example, in my physics courses I've taken (3 at university level), every single course has been calculus based. Without math science doesn't exist.
In high school things are easy. It's hard for some people to grasp onto more abstract things - which is one of the things math allows you to do. Plus, you don't know the math to justify why things work. A lot of physics and chemistry requires calculus to understand and people typically take calculus in college (or AP Calculus senior year of high school). Once you take calculus almost every single physics equation dealing with kinematics (the study of movement) makes perfect sense.
In my physics I course (kinematics) I had to derive the equations for simple harmonic motion. This required knowledge of differential calculus, differential equations and how to solve them, and imaginary numbers. All of this was needed to model something moving back and forth periodically.
In high school things are easy. It's hard for some people to grasp onto more abstract things - which is one of the things math allows you to do. Plus, you don't know the math to justify why things work. A lot of physics and chemistry requires calculus to understand and people typically take calculus in college (or AP Calculus senior year of high school). Once you take calculus almost every single physics equation dealing with kinematics (the study of movement) makes perfect sense.
In my physics I course (kinematics) I had to derive the equations for simple harmonic motion. This required knowledge of differential calculus, differential equations and how to solve them, and imaginary numbers. All of this was needed to model something moving back and forth periodically.
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