The Journey Of Mathematics in Our Life

            Mathematics is a familiar science in this world. Not only in the school, We meet mathematics in every single part of our life. We know that mathematics is an useful science that can be used to calculate something. When we meet some problems, we can use our knowledge about mathematics to solve it. But we need to understand, how to solve it in mathematics way.

            Many people say that mathematics is about number. But, when my lecturer, Professor Marsigit asked about our memory in number, actually I don’t really memorize it. He asked us, since when we understand about number exactly. I really don’t remember the first time I understand about number. But I know about number, such like number one (1), two(2), etc. Professor Marsigit explained to us that is because an ‘intuition’. Intuition is a condition when we understand something, but we don’t really know the first time we understand about it.  So, we can assume that we start learn mathematics using our intuition.

            Intuition can be obtained from our experiences in our life. To start learning mathematics, so we should have experience about it first. To strengthen our intuition, we have to get a lot of experiences in our life. But, we should make sure that experience is a good experience for us. That experience should be appropriate with our purpose in learning mathematics. As an adult people, we know that we can learn many things from our experience. Many people say that experience is the best teacher for us. So, we have to be wise to do something, because it can be a valuable experience for us.

            We understand that to learn something, we must walk on our process as well as mathematics. Those experience that can be strengthen our intuition, include in the process. For young learner, they usually be taught with concrete mathematics. When they grow up and understand about concrete mathematics, then they can be taught with formal mathematics or abstract mathematics, or university mathematics. So, mathematics is a journey, and we have to walk on it process. Its process can develop our intuition and our knowledge.