People struggle with equations simply because they are presented with what they perceive as an unknown to them.
Just because you don't have the background that tells you what these equations are, like they are a foreign language.
But you do use them in everyday settings. You do the same thing without thinking in terms of formulas, equations.
Just as you can estimate without knowing any math at all, knowing say, the approximate amount of something in a box.
Some people are better than others at doing this. Like guessing how many jelly beans in a jar to win the prize.
Math can tell you the exact number or a number that is close enough, within tolerance. 5,374,762 + or - 1.
Close enough to define the winner. It works if only one person comes close enough to that answer. Or you could count them all.
If you think about it, you logically breakdown the problem into smaller pieces and then put them together to get a good estimate.
Estimation has it's own value. There are times you don't need to know the exact answer to something that could be found through math.
You know it's going to take three people to lift something, instead of two. You didn't need to know the exact weight.
When you see equations and formulas, you see a foreign language. But you can easily understand it when you hear the words, instead of the symbols.
Indeed there are the ones that take more intelligence to understand than others, but only because of complexity or theory that you're not familiar with.
It's not a that you can't, it's only that you haven't been exposed to some of it.
People use these same kinds of equations and formulas everyday, all day, without realizing they are.
Only because you aren't thinking in that language of math and symbols used as shortcuts to get from one end to the other.
You can use them backwards with as much ease as you can most equations.
Math is simply a way of defining a more exact answer, or a way to simplify the equation to begin with.
Just as estimation involves abstract thinking, so does the math of equations and formulas.
Baking is a formula. You use the language of baking instead of the math.
You use the psychics of thermodynamics, without having to know the exact outcome.
Algebra is simply a way to state things of similar natures in terms that can be applied in different situations.
Higher math is the same, it gets you closer to the exact number you seek, the nature of how something works.
In a way that can be understood to apply to other things that are similar in those same ways.
The symbols and the way they can be used are not that different than language you use everyday.
It's beauty lies in the way it can be used to express something quantitatively in different ways, just as the use of a word here or there,
turning a sentence around to mean something different, yet the same, only because of the way you see it or interpret it.
It's the real language of numbers and how they interact with the everyday things we take for granted.
Just as the language you speak, you take for granted that the person listening to you understands what you just said.
Speaking to another person is a very abstract thing we do and taken for granted that they will understand.
Math and all of its intricate ways it can be used, is no more different in it's nature to define something abstract.
It's a language that express's in many ways, what you already know.
It takes your estimation of all those jelly beans in the contest jar and lets you figure out a better answer, or even the exact answer.
And by writing it down, you can then rework it to fit the needs of your problem that you're trying to solve.
It shows you ways of finding the number of jelly beans in different ways, from different perceived ways of seeing the jar and the contents.
It can be as simple as rudimentary language skills, to the flowing narration of that novel you can't put down.
The earliest languages used symbols and then progress into much more complicated things, like forming words out of letters.
Equations and formulas simply take the complication of words and turn them into symbols.
The beauty lies in the way the perception can be changed and used for different things of similar nature.
It simply describes what there is, just as the language you speak does.
We use words that have different meanings in the context of how they are used. Math isn't any different.
But it is a universal language that can be understood by people who speak in different languages.
It can be as beautiful as anything you've ever read or heard. It speaks to the people who use it.
It's the language that nature uses, it's universal. Math transcends all languages.
You can make a deal and buy something in a foreign land with it, without know the local language or dialect.
Whether simple or complicated, it's a beautiful language of its own.
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