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Samantha reflects on her newfound understanding of the real-world applications of math, which was missing from her pre-college education. She notes that introducing math beyond high school levels and how it relates to reality would have influenced her earlier in choosing her major. She recognizes that math is fundamental to many activities, from pitching a tent to launching a space probe. While a school project on locating buried treasure seems simple, it represents how basic observation and math can be applied to anything in the physical world. As hints in the universe help locate objects, from molecules to giant celestial bodies, so basic math concepts like trigonometry will remain important tools for understanding the universe.

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Reflection

Samantha reflects on her newfound understanding of the real-world applications of math, which was missing from her pre-college education. She notes that introducing math beyond high school levels and how it relates to reality would have influenced her earlier in choosing her major. She recognizes that math is fundamental to many activities, from pitching a tent to launching a space probe. While a school project on locating buried treasure seems simple, it represents how basic observation and math can be applied to anything in the physical world. As hints in the universe help locate objects, from molecules to giant celestial bodies, so basic math concepts like trigonometry will remain important tools for understanding the universe.

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Ollerton 1

Samantha Ollerton
Mr. Melo
Math 1060
November 4th

Reflection
In my study of Trigonometry this semester, and of math in general thus far, it seems clear
to me that the element of understanding I was missing throughout my pre-college education was
the application of math in the real world. I, and most of my classmates, drudged through the
basics of geometry and algebra, asking why we needed to know how to compute absolute values,
or the area of trapezoids, or anything beyond fiscal fractioning. Had someone introduced me to
math just beyond the limits of my high school math experience, and how deeply the details of it
stretched in the fabric of reality, I likely would have chosen my major much sooner.
It is not an overused statement, nor a passing trend, to say that math is everything.
Whether pitching a tent, or launching a ground breaking solar probe into space, the relationship
of numbers remains bound by the same rules. This project of locating buried treasure, as simple
and juvenile as it may seem, is not an inaccurate representation of how one may approach basic
observation of a terrestrial plane, and is the basic framework for everything beyond.
After all, the universe is a treasure trove full of these little hints, telling us where every
mysterious object lies, from elusive molecules to celestial giants. And as similar as the variance
of such hidings are, so may be the hints of their seclusion, with the resulting pursuit bearing a
uniqueness upon the hunter. Methods of approach may change, our technology evolving as our
understanding of the universe does, ever improving our ability to move through spacetime. Yet as
we continue to use the basic essentials of studies such as Trigonometry in successful endeavors
and predictions, one after the other, so too can we predict that their importance will always
remain a standard in educational essentials. Another tool of tact in the continuous seeking of
universal awareness, and another key to understanding how and why any of us are here in the
first place.

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