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Using Everyday Math in Everyday Life - For Dummies - 0 views

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  This site is more for adult life!
  
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Whether you’re dealing with your everyday finances, or getting together for a neighborhood card game, you need to know basic math to help you simplify and stay on top of your money matters.
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To calculate a different loan amount, multiply the payment by the new amount and divide by 100,000. For fractional interest rates, take the fraction of the step up to the next whole-number rate.
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This site gives examples of how math is used in adult life (playing poker, using credit cards, and dealing with mortgages).

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Cooking and Math - 0 views

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  This website lists the math skills needed for cooking. There are also links at the bottom of the page for other everyday activities!
  
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A person will need to know how to add fractions together in order to put in the correct amount of ingredients so that the meal is a good one
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People who enjoy cooking understand that they need to have sharp math skills in order to prepare good food.
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This website describes how math is used for cooking.

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Mathematics in Everyday Life - 0 views

www.etwinmaths.blogspot.com math mathematics research everyday life

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  If you scroll down, this website contains slides (with images) going through all the topics: percentages, art, patterns, architecture, etc.
  
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Most manufacturers use symmetry of some kind in designing their logos.
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But math is present in our world all the time--in the workplace, in our homes, and in life in general. When you buy a car, follow a recipe, or decorate your home, you're using math principles.
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Audi uses four intersecting circles in a line. This pattern has one line of reflection symmetry.
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The complexity of the designs is created by repeating symmetrical patterns and folk motifs inspired by nature and geometric shapes.
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This website contains many aspects of life that require math such as, areas, percentages, car logos, art, architecture, and patterns

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Google Earth Measurement - 0 views

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  I cannot stress how amazing this site is. I am so glad I found it. Go back to the Lessons tab to see more great lessons.
  
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The ruler tool is versatile in that it can measure distances in centimeters, yards, miles, and other units. 
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Tsunami Warning
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measurement of great distances and so students should be shown how to rotate the globe with the keyboard arrow keys as they measure.
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This site is AMAZING! It uses Google Earth to show how math is used to measure things in real life.

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"Real-Life Math" - 0 views

www.homeschooloasis.com/art_real-life_math.htm math real life realworld research

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Cooking/baking
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figure out his bowling average
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Balancing a checkbook - YOUR checkbook.
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Grocery shopping
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This site has a lot of everyday examples of math in real-life!

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Education World: Get Real: Math in Everyday Life - 0 views

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  This site has online games that help students see the connection between math and everyday life
  
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Calculating a Car Payment.
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n Saving & Investing,
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Let's begin at the Lemonade Stand,
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n The Government
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Making a Budget a
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This page gives a lot of great examples, such as a lemonade stand, calculating a car payment, etc.

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Mathematics and Sports: Feature Column from the AMS - 0 views

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  This site has great information but may be too difficult for middle school students
  
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Very often the value of k = 1 is so each team or player gets to play exactly one game (match) against every other team or player.
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The first areas where people think about mathematics being applied are in the sciences and engineering.
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Graph theory, a branch of combinatorics which draws heavily on geometrical ideas, uses diagrams consisting of dots and lines to help get insight into a variety of mathematical problems.
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A pioneer in using graph theory as a tool for solving scheduling problems
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This site goes into the mathematics behind the sports world

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Mathematics in Sports - 0 views

jwilson.coe.uga.edu/...MathematicsSports.html math sports everyday research life

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  This incorporate physics and calculus!
  
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Here is the equation for finding the projectile motion of a baseball will travel
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However, you must consider the angle of the ball and the velocity with which the ball is thrown when trying to get a strike.
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This website describes how mathematics is used in sports (basketball, bowling, and baseball).

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  This is just an introduction page. To view how math is integrated in specific areas of real life, view the tabs on the left.
  
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Whether you're sailing a boat off the coast of Japan or building a house in Peru, you're using math to get things done.
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shop wisely, buy the right insurance, remodel a home within a budget, understand population growth, or even bet on the horse with the best chance of winning the race.
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playing games or cooking
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This website has several ways that math can be used in everyday life: Playing to win, savings and credit, population growth, home decroating, cooking by numbers, and the universal language.

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