Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

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Add any four more advantages of teaching school subject that you have experienced
in your career
1.5.3.2. Importance of school subjects -Subject wise.
We teach many subjects in schools. Each subject has unique advantages. Some
outcomes may be the combination of subjects, or some subjects may help to achieve and
strengthen the set goals. Let us understand the importance of a few subjects taught in
schools
Math:
Math is part and parcel of our time. We start our day with math. “oh! ‘It is already 7’,
‘please give me half cup of coffee’, ‘ I have to travel 8 k.m’ ‘I have to reach the school by
10 a.m’ -in all these sentences we are using maths. We cannot live without math. ‘Sir, I am
sorry, I am late by half an hour’ -these expressions demonstrate how we are living with
math. Thus it helps to tell time.
It helps to maintain our finances. Balancing one’s bank account, for example, is an
important life skill that requires math in order to subtract balances. People who know
math are therefore less likely to go into debt because they did not know how much money
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they had versus how much money they spent. Math helps us have better problem-solving
skills.
Math helps us think analytically and have better reasoning abilities. Analytical thinking
refers to the ability to think critically about the world around us. Reasoning is our ability to
think logically about a situation. Analytical and reasoning skills are important because
they help us solve problems and look for solutions. 
Math is used in practically every career in some way. Obviously, mathematicians
and scientists rely on mathematical principles to do the most basic aspects of their work
such as test hypotheses. While scientific careers famously involve math, they are not the
only careers to do so. Even operating a cash register requires that one understands basic
arithmetic. People working in a factory must be able to do mental arithmetic to keep track
of the parts on the assembly line and must, in some cases, manipulate fabrication software
utilizing geometric properties (such as the dimensions of a part) in order to build their
products.