Fun Math in Everyday Life

Wise & Wide is a 6-level English reading program that consists of 60 books and each level is
systematically divided by Lexile Ⓡ measures. The Lexile Ⓡ Framework for Reading is the most popular reading measuring system in American formal education curriculums and many English programs.
Over 20 out of 50 states in the U.S. mark Lexile Ⓡ measures directly on students’ final report cards and over 300 well-known publishers adopt and use Lexile Ⓡ measures.
Experience many kinds of readings written by professional writers from the U.S. and England. They used interesting topics that were carefully chosen after analyzing elementary curriculums from around the world including Korea, the U.S., England, and Australia among many others.

Before Reading

Is math is complicated and difficult?

What comes into your mind when you think of “math”? Is it difficult and complicated for you? Do you think of the multiplication tables, complicated formulas, and the various symbols for difficult calculations? Are these things really the only things we know about math?
As a matter of fact, we meet math everywhere in our everyday lives.
Everything that we see, use, and enjoy is related to math. Right now, look around you. Numbers that you see on the calendar, the clock, etc. are math!
Measuring units that indicate a shoe size, the temperature or the distance to a place are also math! And the shapes of the various things in your room are decided by math. In addition, the graphs that often show up on the TV news or in the newspaper are math. Like these examples show, it is clear that everything that exists around us is related to math.

Summary

When we are a baby, we don’t know what numbers are, how tall we are, or how much we weigh. We also can’t distinguish which one is bigger, which group is greater in number, or how a triangle and a square are different. As we grow up, we learn these things naturally. Numbers, shapes, measurements and data all have something to do with “math.”
We use math when we count “one, two, three, ...” We also use it when we measure the length or weight of something using measuring units such as centimeters and kilograms. In addition, the things around us that have distinct shapes like a circle, a square, a cylinder, etc., are also concerned with math.
Also throughout the day, we get various information which has something to do with math. There is the timetable at the train station, for example.
Like this, there is interesting math everywhere in our lives even though we didn’t realize it before.