Some food for thought: how do YOU use math? You probably don't need to calculate the volume of water in your neighborhood swimming pool very often, but we all use math every day! Why is your alarm clock set for when it is? Because you know how long it takes you to get ready, and you have to work backwards from when you need to be at school. That - right there - is subtraction. Of course, that's a bit different from calculating sines and cosines and using the Pythagorean Theorem, but it's still math.
Think about what you do every day, or just some days. If you take the bus from your house to school, you can map out the route you take and you can measure how long the drive was by measuring each straight line of the route. Or could measure the total distance via a straight line (of course, we all do this using Google Maps nowadays, so Google is doing the math for you).
But maybe you play softball, or your favorite sport to watch is football. How can you apply geometric concepts to these sports? Both of them have specific, precise measuring. Both are played on a plane - a flat, level playing field. Even though we watch the sports and cheer for our favorite teams, there's geometry right there in front of us - and without it, we couldn't construct such stadiums in a consistent way.
More questions for your winter break: how is geometry represented in your home? In your life? In your hobbies? Think about things you see and use every day and how and why math plays a role!
Think about what you do every day, or just some days. If you take the bus from your house to school, you can map out the route you take and you can measure how long the drive was by measuring each straight line of the route. Or could measure the total distance via a straight line (of course, we all do this using Google Maps nowadays, so Google is doing the math for you).
But maybe you play softball, or your favorite sport to watch is football. How can you apply geometric concepts to these sports? Both of them have specific, precise measuring. Both are played on a plane - a flat, level playing field. Even though we watch the sports and cheer for our favorite teams, there's geometry right there in front of us - and without it, we couldn't construct such stadiums in a consistent way.
More questions for your winter break: how is geometry represented in your home? In your life? In your hobbies? Think about things you see and use every day and how and why math plays a role!