The Math Science Nucleus is proud to announce the winners of the Dana Raimondi Math Program Essay Contest on “Why Math is Important.” Competing in 2016 were 350 students from Brier, Blacow, Cabrillo, Durham, Grimmer,  Mattos and Vallejo Mills, all from Fremont Unified School District. Below are the winners at the annual awards ceramony  with Dana Raimondi and Dr. Jim Morris (left) and Dr. Karen Anderson on right with winners.

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Blacow Elementary

 Kaylee Gonzales

Math is important because you use it in everyday life, such as school and jobs.  You would need math to get good grades in school and get a good job.  Jobs you may need for math are: tax examiner, accountant, astronomer, or a meteorologist.  Those are all great jobs that pay a lot of money and involve math.  You could get those jobs and be able to have money to do things.  We use math for: art, money, engineering and even sports.  Math was invented 5,000 years ago, but it has improved since then.  We use that improvement to better our lives and the way we live.  Math is a very important skill to know in life.

 

Ann Walia (Mattos)	Anthony Henriquez (Durham)	Kaylee Gonzales (Blacow)

Alyssa Colacion

If you think that math isn’t needed then you should think again.  Math is needed everywhere you go, every time, and everywhere you look you are always going to see something that you need math for.  Even though you might think you don’t, you do need math in life. Math is needed in many places.  One example is when you go shopping. You have to count your money to see if you have enough money to buy what your heart desires.  You also have to see if there is a sale because it could cost less for you if there is a sale. You also have to check if it has the full set of clothes.

In addition math is also needed in sports, like football. You have to keep track of the points and how much more yards till a first down.  Also in basketball you have to make an angle to where you are going to shoot the ball.  As well as baseball you have to see how fast the ball goes and see how much outs there are. When you are cooking you need to use math for measuring ingredients and how much time you have to cook it for.  If you didn’t measure then it won’t come out the same and taste the same.

Along with building houses you need lots of math. For example, you have to measure, do angles, and see how much you need of everything.  When you also remodel a house you might need to measure walls and see how much paint you need.  Being a zookeeper might seem like an easy job but it’s not.  Zookeepers have to count all the animals, and feed all of the animals too.  Some veterinarians have to count how much pets they have to attend, so they know how much medicine or needles they need to use to attend the animals.

As an electrician you need to use math for lots of things like when you have to know how much wires to cut.  When you go in attics sometimes you need to know at what angle you want to cut wires or how much screws you want to hang up wires.  When you go mining you have to know how much time you have till you can run out of air.  While you go mining you have to check if you have enough pickaxes too. In other words when you are driving you need to know at what limit you have to stay at.  While you are parking you have to have an angle to where you are going to park at.  You also have to know at what time you have to stop at when the light is red.

If you are doing laundry you have to figure out how much clothes you have to put in the washer.  You also need to know how much soap you need to put inside of the washer.  One other thing is how long you have to leave it in the washer.  In conclusion I think that you don’t just need math with money, you need math everywhere and every day in life.

  Brier Elementary

 Swayam Patel

Math is important because of many causes.  Reason #1: Math helps us in building structures.  We use math to build structures because it helps the structures to stay put.  We use integers for deciding how tall the building will be, and how much of the building will be underground.  We would use positive numbers to determine how tall the building will be and negative numbers to determine how much of the building will be underground.  We also use math to determine how much space or weight will the building support.  Math also helps us know how much building material the building will use.  Reason #2: Destruction of the buildings.  Angle measurement helps us to determine where building will fall.  If they didn’t use the angles the buildings will fall in some other buildings.  Reason #3: measurement.  If we didn’t have measurement, we wouldn’t be able to determine how tall we are or how much we weigh.  We wouldn’t be able to determine the depth of the earth or how much juice is in one bottle, or how long we drove.  Reason #4: Bank accounts and money.  If we didn’t have math we would never know how much something cost.  We would never know how much money to give to the cashier.  We also wouldn’t know how much money we withdrew or deposited in our bank.  So we would have less or more money than actually we are supposed to have.  Reason #5: temperature.  Without temperature we would never know if we have a fever or if it is going to be hot or cold.  We wouldn’t know if the bread or cake was supposed to be cooked at what temperature.  Reason #6: Depth.  If we didn’t know depth, we would never know what is the safest depth to go under water so humans wouldn’t get crushed.  If we didn’t have depth, we wouldn’t know the depth of the Earth’s interior structure.  We wouldn’t ever know how deep the Earth is.  Reason #7: The most important thing is math helps us learn.  Math helps kids learn how to survive in the real world.  They help us learn how to calculate money, depth, and temperature.  These are some of the reasons why math is important to us in life.  If we didn’t have math we would never be able to live.  Thank math for helping us live.

Aira Maye D. G. Garcia

Math is important in our daily life because we use it at school, at work, and at home.  Everything that you do, it includes math because wherever we look there are geometric shapes, like a polygon, hexagon, octagon, heptagon, and etc. Architects and construction workers use math all the time because if construction workers made a mistake in math the building might fall on them.  They have to predict if the angles are right.  A chef always uses measurements to make the food right, and scientists predict the weather by instruments and measuring.  Astronauts need math because they have to predict how many packs of food to bring in space by using algebra and how many stuff can he take on his rocket.  Math is important if you want to keep track of how much you’re making and losing in business, and also as a kid you might want to know how much you’re making and how can you get your favorite toy or videogame.  Math is used everywhere you go, or even at home, or even at your job.  That’s why math is important to every person in the world.  We study math so we can have a bright future.

 Neeraj Penumaka

Math is important to us in many ways.  We use math every day and everywhere on a daily basis.  Without math we can’t do a lot of things.  One way we use math is when cooking a meal.  We need the correct measure of ingredients so the meal won’t taste odd.  Another way we use math is when making a plan to build a building.  We need to use area, perimeter, and equations to find out the measure of each room.

Math is also used in all of the subjects we learn in school, college, and universities.  In the subject math we learn how to calculate so we can calculate the rent we are paying for an apartment building.  In science, we use math to find the area of a project so it won’t be too big or too small and it will be just right.  In P. E., we use math to measure how far we ran and the mile time we arrived in.  In language arts, we use numbers to find what page we are reading in a book.  Without math we won’t get a good education.  Therefore, math is very important to the world.

Cabrillo Elementary

Ethan Jennings

Math is important because it is everywhere and is used everywhere.  Math is used in sports, your phone, even on you.  Math is used for geography and art.  It may be used to calculate things or to know how far and high to throw and to code something.  See, math lets geologists dig up things and map the sectors.  Math is on your shoes like the size of the logo and the shoe.  Math is even used to catch a rodent.  So that rat you have been chasing you can catch by using math. So remember this, without math we are cavemen eating dirt.

Loraelyne Gapasin (Durham)	Moses Aquino (Grimmer)	Ria Jain (Mattos)

Durham Elementary

Loraelyne Gapasin

Math is one important skill every person needs to learn.  Math is used on an everyday basis, such as time.  We use math in time, and we don’t even realize it!  Math is everywhere from you cooking to people building.  If you’re a cashier, you add up prices and money for change.  Even an architect uses math.  When an architect needs to build a house, they use measurements.  Do you know how math is used in sports?! For instance, in basketball, players need to calculate and use angles to get the ball in the hoop.  You see, math is very important, but if this doesn’t convince you then… What about technology?  From your phone to the computers at school, they all use math.  All technology uses algebra, time, distance, and more.  Without math, how will all the technology, finances, buildings, time, etc. exist? Math is so important to us and we don’t always think about it.  In conclusion, math is essential.  Without it, what will our life be like?

Srishti Singhal

There is no possible way to describe how amazing math is.  An average person uses math in some kind of way in his or her daily life.  Mathematicians invented numbers to make new discoveries and solve problems.

The skyscrapers seen in every city have been constructed using methods for width, area, perimeter, and height.  By using math, a person can find how deep the ocean is or what quantity of chocolate is needed in a cake.  In fact, a lot of math is used in science.  Scientists measure the distance of Earth from the sun using the numeric system.  Paleontologists understand the data from ancient fossil sites.  When at the supermarket, people buy soda according to the different measurements.  The cashiers at the counter do a lot of math in order to give the customer their change.  As time is passing, math is advancing the technology. Our world is improving by making discoveries and solving problems.  Math is the key to success.

Grimmer Elementary

Loraelyne Gapasin

 Math is one important skill every person needs to learn.  Math is used on an everyday basis, such as time.  We use math in time, and we don’t even realize it!  Math is everywhere from you cooking to people building.  If you’re a cashier, you add up prices and money for change.  Even an architect uses math.  When an architect needs to build a house, they use measurements.  Do you know how math is used in sports?! For instance, in basketball, players need to calculate and use angles to get the ball in the hoop.  You see, math is very important, but if this doesn’t convince you then… What about technology?  From your phone to the computers at school, they all use math.  All technology uses algebra, time, distance, and more.  Without math, how will all the technology, finances, buildings, time, etc. exist? Math is so important to us and we don’t always think about it.  In conclusion, math is essential.  Without it, what will our life be like?

Srishti Singhal

There is no possible way to describe how amazing math is.  An average person uses math in some kind of way in his or her daily life.  Mathematicians invented numbers to make new discoveries and solve problems.

The skyscrapers seen in every city have been constructed using methods for width, area, perimeter, and height.  By using math, a person can find how deep the ocean is or what quantity of chocolate is needed in a cake.  In fact, a lot of math is used in science.  Scientists measure the distance of Earth from the sun using the numeric system.  Paleontologists understand the data from ancient fossil sites.  When at the supermarket, people buy soda according to the different measurements.  The cashiers at the counter do a lot of math in order to give the customer their change.  As time is passing, math is advancing the technology. Our world is improving by making discoveries and solving problems.  Math is the key to success.

Mattos Elementary

Ann Walia

Math plays a very big role in our daily lives, and in the following paragraphs you’re going to get a glimpse of how much math we use every day.  Almost everyone uses math in every sector of their daily activity.  For example, the computer was designed and created using math.  Also without math, a lot of the knowledge we know wouldn’t exist, because math plays a very big role in other subjects, like science.  Believe it or not our lives would be very different without this very crucial subject.

Math is the key to computers.  Computers are programmed using math.  A lot of the functions and operators in a computer use some type of mathematic.  Without math our technology wouldn’t be so advanced or even exist.  Imagine all the benefits we drive from using computers in our existence, from manufacturing to space missions, to name a few.  When products are manufactured in factories, all the machinery is controlled by high-tech technologies, which are computers.  The computer controls the machinery with codes that consist of numbers.  All the planning, calculating, and research are done with it.  Without math, NASA wouldn’t be possible!  This is all done with computers.  In addition, anything that uses computers uses mathematics, and you are probably aware of how many things that consists of. 

Math makes many subjects, like science, possible.  For instance, math always has something to do with astronomy.  It helped us understand our universe.  Math is in the calculations of how far the sun is from us, and even how far we are from the middle of our galaxy, the Milky Way!  In science, mathematics is an analytic tool applied to experimental data, in order to generate a formula that describes some tendency of nature.  Mathematics can also be used with an existing theory to deduce an unknown quantity.  Half of the sciences we know today wouldn’t be possible without math.

Math is universal.  It helps us accomplish many tasks, whether they are big or small.  This language of numbers is of very great importance in our existence and accomplishments.  We didn’t invent math concepts, we discovered them.  Math makes life possible.

Ria Jain

Math is very important to our modern world.  Without math, many things achieved by people wouldn’t be possible.  Math made it possible to make rockets and go to the moon.  Robots and computers are programmed/created using binary (a form of math).  Math is also used in astronomy.  We use it to predict eclipses, when comets will arrive, and to help find galaxies, planets, and stars.  Math is also used in everyday life.  To cook, you use math to predict how much time it will take you to make the food.  You also measure the amount of ingredients needed in the food.  One simple thing that uses math is time.  When you look at the clock, you know exactly what time it is.  MATH has made our world advanced and modern.

David Roh

Math is what advances human knowledge.  Math, always evolving, is everywhere from ancient India to New York.  Math forms around everything in daily life from 90 degree street corners to the internet.  Without math, the world would never be able to advance and it would be very confusing. Math makes life convenient.  Ancient India created the Hindu-Arabic numeral to count large numbers for large trading.  Math created medicine and other methods, with chemistry, to save lives in a safer way, without using unnecessary bleeding or chopping of body parts.

Math makes life safer.  Since I live in the Bay Area, I know math is important in earthquakes.  The buildings can be enforced with steel in specific angles.  Seismographs must be measured and estimations of next earthquakes would be all types of math.

Math is not just numbers and education; it is part of history, science, and literature, from convenience to safety. Math may seem boring sometimes, but it is the skill that humans are most skilled at and depend on.

Vallejo Mill Elementary

Netah Golan

Math is really important around the world.  What could you do without numbers and the basics of counting?  Nothing.  Let’s say you are passing college or getting into college.  Since math is important in what you are going to do, you can’t do either of them without it.  Try cash, for example.  If you are getting a job to make a living, you need to know how much you are getting.  While you are buying, you need to know how much you are paying.  How about measurement?  Say you are a nurse at a hospital.  If you’re a nurse, you need to know how much medicine you’re putting in a really ill person’s body, or even how much string is used for wound stitching.   A person with an artificial leg or arm would be in a bad shape if the nurse doesn’t know how long the leg/arm needs to be cut off.  Let’s move on to area and volume.  A person who is building a house needs to measure the area and volume if the house needs to be in good shape.  Time is important too.  You need to know how much time you have to do something or the deadline if you don’t want to be late.  Teachers especially need to know math.  Their students’ future depends on it.  Math is so important that without it, you wouldn’t be educated enough.

Inah Yi

Math is in every minute, in every hour of the day.  Some people see math as numbers and problems, but the way others see it is a way of understanding.  Math is in almost everything, from the mechanics used to make products, to the programming on this computer.  Scholars use math like another language, to teach students about how things work and how they function.  In school, students learn how to solve problems and learn new things.   With the correct calculations, math could make things like skyscrapers and airplanes!  Without it, some things wouldn’t be like what they are right now.  Timelines for our history wouldn’t be recorded and important evens could be lost in the past.  Medicines to help sick or injured could be harmful without the correct dosage.  Many people would be ill and sick.  Computers wouldn’t exist because of the math needed in the programming.  Even cars need math to work!  The importance of math is in our education and learning, as well as everyday life.  This is what I have learned about how math is important in our society and economy.  Thank you for listening.

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