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RE: Why Math Is Considered Very Hard by Many?
I had good math and science teachers when I was just starting out and I really liked math and did well. It helps if you can get the basics and feel like you are enjoying it and are able to understand things.
I think my hesitation in concentrating on getting a math degree was around feeling like it would not lead to many employment opportunities. I was never very interested in being a teacher.
In any case the employment situation now is difficult - I'm not sure what I would do if I was a youth again.
Exactly my dear brother, doing a degree in math means to become a math teacher. That was my case as well, I didn't find many employment opportunities once I finished my degree back in India though my goal was to become a teacher. Here in Canada it didn't help much either.
Math does help a lot when doing computer programming or studying computer science. It is a very good way of learning to think in a general problem solving way. I think it (possibly?) used to be more common for businesses to hire mathematicians for statistical process control, planning or other things. Some of this type of work might be being displaced by machine learning at this point. Computers are much better at identifying general trends and analysis of big data sets than humans.
I'll be curious to see what we end up focusing on in teaching math in the future. One of my frustrations as a kid was spending a lot of time and effort on learning things that I felt were easily obtained in other ways and not really understanding what the math was good for. For example, why bother learning to solve calculus problems when you can get the answer with a trivial operation on a computer? Perhaps it might be better to learn more in depth what cases require this type of calculation for an answer. Maybe this has changed already - it has been a long time since I was in school.
Sorry about the wordiness, dear brother. ;)
Absolutely right my dear brother, all the statistical analysis jobs have been replaced by computers and mathematicians needed now for computer programming to design those analytical software.
I think in the future math learning going to be very limited to persons who want to teach it or to do research further or software development.
Most focus will be on learning how to use mathematical instruments such as a graphing calculator, financial calculator or statistical software (or learning applications). I always wanted this way. I saw many of my friends who wanted to be language or PE teachers and they had to learn geometry and trigonometry for grade 11, totally ridiculous (they forced to waste their time and energy on learning something they probably would never use in their whole life).
Ha haha. No worries for wordiness, this is perfect, I like it and we need it.