Do you think math is important for kids?

Considering how math is used in nearly every aspect of daily life, whether people realize it or not, from filling up your coffee cup and adding cream and sugar (it's all about proportions), to filling up your car's gas tank (it's all about rates and unit rates) to obeying - or not - the speed limit on the way to where you're going in order to arrive on time, to paying for purchases to knowing if your paycheck is in the right amount, I'd say it is enormously important for kids to learn math.

I think maths is important for everyone. I prefer do do general maths more. I still don't understand why children in high school have to do maths that they will not be used (all the time) in their real life...

Math is so essential for kids. It is the basic foundation of knowing things in this world.

@TheHorse - Two of our daughters are teachers ... one teaches math and one teaches special ed children, including math. Yes, I agree that math is very important. I think we allow kids to use calculators way to early in school. They stop solving problems on their own once they use a calculator, and then they no longer understand how math works ... and how amazing it is!

I hated, am really bad at math, but it's essential.

Math was never my favorite subject at school. But yes, it is very important.

I believe that math is important for everyone. Wish my teachers had more patience and taught me better math skills. I struggle today with math and always have. As a child I was ridiculed in front of the class when I couldn't answer a math problem correctly. The teacher did nothing to diffuse the situation and it clearly impacted my ability to learn. I still have math anxiety!

I began to love Math eventhough I am not so good at it..I believe that teaching kids with Math is important because knowing the basic will help their minds to function

Indeed they need to know how to count guitar strings Seriously awesome you do this and can tell love kids. I always read your kids post Slave labor is not my thing or else I would like everything. Just kidding one of the few is does kid labor right I would think.

Even my favourite subject in school was maths. Still I teach it to my kids . They are in 4th standard and I had to do lots of hard work to make them understand addition, subtraction, division and multiplication.

With me, it's words not numbers. But plane geometry? It rocks! I do use the basic math I learned in jr high school, and on rare occasions, I use some of the basic algebra I learned in 9th grade. As a girl in 1950s small town Texas culture, I was not encouraged to learn anything that would be useful in college. I was encouraged to go to church 3X a week, get married, clean house, cook, do laundry, grocery shop (math!), and raise a family. I loved plane geometry! It seemed a combination of art, math, and, very importantly, I loved learning those theorems. The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. I think there's a song about it... Here's a rap (if the link will work)

I also agree that maths is essential in daily life. But how you approach and understand it is important. Making easy steps will help the children to remember it.

Yes, I know it is. I find it hard to teach maths to older kids if they don't have a proper understanding of basics. I wish I could catch them young

Math is a very important subject.Basic mathematics should be always welcomed ,as it will help in future.However one need not be extremely good in maths unless and until he or she wants to pursue a career out of it.

Of course, it is important. Some parts more than others. I mean, I have no doubt that there is a lot of maths which will never be of any use to children other than to pass an exam. My eldest enjoys maths (and always has done) for the reason you gave - there is a right answer and a wrong answer. He was never a fan of English where a lot of the mark was down to interpretation. Not that he wasn't good at it, he was. He just prefers to know that he has an answer right than trying to figure out what the teacher will like best. I teach maths. I also teach English. I have one student at the moment. She is not good at maths at all. She would be better if she could be a little more confident in her own abilities but she's most likely never going to be any more than average.

I think math is very important but it's not my strong point.

I love Math and I think that is why I am business minded, or why I have managed more businesses in life that not. But what most dont know I wanted to be an attorney Yes I taught all the children in my care how to count

Mathematics have been one of my favourites too and yes I loved teaching it to kids from Grade 4 to Grade 9/ 10. Particularly Algebra and Geometry. Oh the Trignometry. Well they all are fun But I do think there are just some stuff that kids don't need to learn in Mathematics and those are the tough stuff. I don't see why their grades have to suffer when a couple of things in the subject won't even matter later in life. Education is to educate and prepare kids for being self sufficient.

@TheHorse Oh, yes I do think math is very important, for kids to learn! I always got As in math, so it was by far, my favorite subject in school. Literature, history, biology? I passed by the skin of my teeth:(

Its imp. bcoz makes them solve logical question