While some jobs like engineering and science directly require higher level math skills, the document discusses differing opinions on whether students truly need math or will use it after school. Some experts argue that math teaches problem solving skills that can be applied generally, while others note most adults do not use math concepts at work or daily life. The document also provides examples of potential everyday uses of math like calculating tips, recipe amounts, or bill totals.

1. Do Students Really Need
Math?
By Meagan Makuta

2. Jobs that Require Math
 Engineers
 Chemists
 Special Effects Director
 Meteorologists
 Statisticians
 And many more!

3. When Would we use Math?
We've all had an intense game of
Monopoly going on. You could use
math to dominate and make your
opponents broke.

4. Opinion of G.V. Ramanathan
 Unlike literature, history, politics and music, math itself has little relevance to everyday life.
All the mathematics one needs in real life can be learned in early years without much fuss.
Higher math is only there to help one solve real life problems. Most adults have no contact
with math at work, nor do they curl up with an algebra book for relaxation.

5. Dublin City University
 Dublin City University says on their website that math can help you detect finacail fraud,
how to help people prepare for earthquakes, learn about the ocean, and many more.

6. Doctor Ian’s Opinion
 I'll tell you a secret: The reason you're being forced to
 study math has nothing to do with whether you'll use it or not. You probably
won't. Hardly anyone does.
 What you're actually supposed to be learning in math class is the art
 of problem reduction, i.e., starting with a problem, reducing it to a simpler
problem, reducing that to a simpler problem, and so on, until you end up with a
problem that's trivial to solve.

7. My Opinion
 I think we need math to do daily tasks, like find out how much to tip someone or doubling
a recipe.
 Maybe we won’t ever use algebra after high school/collage, but it will help us problem
solve for the rest of our lives.
 Math can also be useful to find out how much the total bill amount will be. Even if we
don’t like it, it will help us in the long run.

8. Sources
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102205451.html
 http://www.dcu.ie/maths/mlc/usemaths.shtml
 http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/67253.html