Emmanuel Lemor
@exlemor · Cust. Exp., Prod. Mgmt etc are my world.
@amitnkalra Amit, that question or similar is so reflective of the fact that you are a teenager and I can respect that I was one once as well [not that long ago], and at that time, I had a pretty tough dad who said: "you can buy that HP 48SX you want to buy with your money that you earned as long as you can show me that you can do every function in your head or on paper [took a 3 day weekend]" - might seem harsh from your point of view but he didn't want me to have the excuse to not do well on a test because my calculator died... Today, I can't tell you how much I am thankful for what at the time seemed like a tough weekend :/ lol
I actually used the Quadratic equation 3 months ago and NO, I am not a Math Teacher.
And square roots, I use every once in a while too, as well as circumference, diameters, products, divisions, multiplications, additions, subtractions and percentages - some of those every day... and yet I don't have a job that has anything to do with math...
But the most important thing that you are missing here is Math teaches structure, organization, discipline [in your brain], logic, workflow, understanding of process, linking of data/information between themselves, how to manipulate data/information to achieve a new goal or purpose and that you can NOT live life without doing... even if you are a county street cleaner picking up refuse [not that there is ANYTHING wrong with that job btw, I was just using that to illustrate that it's not so much the type of job one might associate with math like rocket science or astrophysicist]...
The reality is for elementary and high school math, inborn talent [being genetically predispositioned to being good at math] is just much less important than hard work, preparation, and self-confidence.
So, unless your App, forces the student through the steps somehow and teaches them that logic, those tricks, those new ways to wire their brains, make those jumps in understanding, I stand by what I wrote earlier.
And by the way, an App that could do THAT, you could run an entire SaaS company around... and it *would* be helpful your fellow students greatly...
[As a side note, a study came out in 2014 by Univ. of CA, Santa Barbara, which links Math and Social Skills with people earning more money in life]... so I guess Math does have it's uses after all ;)
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