Get on with mathematics
So why do we use letters in algebra?
Numbers have no phones.
What would happen if parallel lines met,?
Trains would crash
What is the square root of minus 1,?
I didn’t even know numbers had any roots square or circular.
How many degrees are there in a right angle?
I thought you got degrees at Uni .
I don’t understand what this right angle is.
It means :Looking at the world in the best possible way.
What is trigonometry for?
Measuring triggers.
What is topology?
The height of wisdom
What is an apology?
Well it’s not algebra, for sure. Is it the study of apps?
Why do we need numbers?
It takes two to tango.
Where numbers here before we invented them?
Yes but we didn’t know that.
Nearly everything in mathematics is an abstraction. In nature there are no circles, ellipses, and squares of the kind you see in your geometry book.
The natural world is too complicated for mathematics to deal with it so we simplify it into these abstract shapes which are simpler than the shapes in nature.
No lake is a perfect ellipse
No mountain as a perfect cone.
Of course we try to build houses which are based on these abstract shapes like squares and rectangles even then unless the builders are very good the shapes are not perfectly matched to the mathematical concepts
How my heart speaks 