Blog 7

Blog #7! -Seeing Math as a "Language" 

Observation: Amount of estimation used in daily life events

Reflection: Today, October 11^th 2012, I had to fill up my gas tank. While doing such a repetitive task, it occurred to me the amount of math that is involved in such a routine process, specifically estimation. While at the gas station, if you want to "estimate" how much it will cost to fill up your tank there is a great deal of math that is involved in such a process.  

Reflection on the reflection:  If you wanted to figure out how much gasoline you need to put into your tank or how much money it will cost to fill your tank, there is a great deal of estimation that goes into this task. Firstly, you have to figure out how much the gasoline is per liter that day.  Today it was at 128.7. Next you have to take into consideration where your gas gauge was prior to filling (Ie. did you still have half a tank or was your tank on empty?). I do this every time I go to the gas station, and it has become a game that I play. As this semester goes on, I find it really interesting to see all the different ways that math can be applied to my every day life. It truly does make me look at math differently and believe that math is a "language".