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Friday, September 16th, 2011
Everyday Applications of Addition
The commonly used dictionary, Merriam Webster, defines addition by: a part of adding; especially the operation of combining numbers so as to obtain an equivalent simple quantity.
Cooking, sports, gambling, finance, and forecasting are all everyday applications that apply the process of addition.
Summing the value of accounts, investments, credit limits, and risk through liability are some examples of how addition is applied in finance.
A simple example of financial addition is balancing a check book, in which one must add up all deposits to the initial balance, then add up all expenses, and subtract the expenses from the new balance to reach a determined amount of money available in the account.
Addition is also used in financial investing when tracking the value or loss in value of stocks.
Necessity for addition skills span from money to cooking, which can be demonstrated through preparing a pot of rice.
In order to cook rice properly, one must use addition to achieve the right ratio of rice to water, as well as adding minutes to the time to determine how long the rice has been cooking.
Timing is important in cooking and is also another great skill that uses the applications of addition as it is used to factor how many seconds, minutes, or hours from a designated time are needed to complete or begin a specific task.
Sporting events also use the concept of addition through timing as the game will begin at a specific time, be sectioned off into timed periods, and may also use time as penalties.
This constant tally sheet is necessary in nearly every sport for both players and fans.
Entertainment and addition go hand in hand when figuring the probability and chance of a sports event, game of chance, or even looking into personal forecasting such as numerology.
Numerology, for example, is the study of numbers, and how people are connected to the numbers that surround the day they were born.
Numerology assigns each number one through nine a list of attributes, which is then factored for each person through addition.
The numerical attribute is found through using addition to sum the numbers in a birthday, for example: October 1, 1934 would be 1+0+1+1+9+3+4=19=1+9=10=+1+0=1
A card games like blackjack (also known as “21″) is another great example of how addition is used in figuring chance.
A player must use the addition of a playing card’s value to place bets on reaching the number 21 or getting closest to it without going over.
With many applications of this basic math function, addition is a fundamental part of everyday.
Entertainment, trade, and education all prove that addition is a necessary in everyday life.
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