What Real Life applications of Maths other that money?
Of course, figuring out how much food to buy for a party, or what quantity of ingredients to use in a recipe, or calculating the mileage your car gets, or how to optimize the layout of your garden are all useful things. But one important application of math is for the average citizen to make sense of news that uses statistics and probability in describing events. We hear that there is a 30% probability of rain, or that a new medical treatment has a 90% success rate, or that a political poll has a margin of error of 4 points, or that the stock market went down 10% last week. In order to make intelligent decisions, people need to understand what these things mean. One reason that a certain sports celebrity beat a murder rap was that the prosecution had trouble explaining to the jury the probabilities involved in DNA identification. One reason (besides addiction) that so many people lose so much money gambling is that they don’t understand the odds. Statistics are used to test and to vali
