Hey reader! Welcome to this article. I know it has been a while since the last publication. Anyway, today I wanted to talk about the world of MATH. 

Yeah, it is a subject that is feared by many. Well, from my childhood I could never get it how come people “fear” Maths? But slowly I got to know their perspective. 

From my observation, the main reason they fear math is the process by which they are taught math. I always want to emphasize “understanding maths”. Math is often boring to some people just because they don’t follow the “understand maths” process. The traditional way people are taught math in my country and the other surrounding countries is to fully focus on the “practicing math” thing. 

Don’t get me wrong, I also believe in “Practice makes a man perfect.” Also, if you want to do well in math exams, the only thing you’ll need to do is practice. 

Practicing maths helps you to predict outcomes. Let’s take chess as an example. If you know a little bit about chess that’s great and if you don’t… sighs.. YOU SHOULD. Chess is amazing. Anyways, in chess, players often play moves after calculating further positions of the board, they calculate the opponents’ possible moves and their possible moves, they calculate trades then they play the next move. 

Math is also like that. Ever had this feeling while doing algebra that why summon random stuff out of nowhere? Later on, solving that problem you eventually understand why did you follow one random trick 3 lines above which did not make any sense when you were doing it for the first time.  

To tackle these kinds of confusions, practice is the key Magnus practiced chess for so long that he can read almost any board position and find the best move. If we also practice maths a lot we’ll eventually have that grip to understand why we follow some weird steps in between the solutions. 

Now, I don’t want you to only focus on practice and sort of memorize one single technique to solve one specific problem. I want you to “understand”, and “feel” the process… Treat math problems as riddles or some crime case. You may follow some unorthodox ways to try to solve any problem. There are no boundings. 

Understanding mathematical concepts helps you increase your thinking ability. Problem-solving skills are essential in order to read any situation in life and come up with a logical answer. 

To understand maths, you should follow these steps.

• Keep asking questions.
• Try to derive formulas on your own. 
• Start discovering the ways of deriving previous formulas. 
• Start attending more mathematical problem-solving contests, and math olympiads. 

About “Math Olympiads”, I myself attend mathematical contests around me and I always clear the first round of the National Math Olympiad in my country. The problems in these contests are always brainstorming and riddling. The questions are set so you can derive ideas on the spot and make a solution to the problem. That’s why people participating in these contests need to understand the core concepts of math well. 

For me, I dont have to prepare for mensuration and other basic geometry chapters from my academic books as I already have understood the core concept while preparing for the math olympiad. In exams, I derive the formulas swiftly and solve the problems. 

Alright… that’s pretty much it. See you in the next article.