• Question: Do you use maths every day?

    Asked by west522wasp to Victoria C, Rachel E, khalidlawal, Amy on 15 Nov 2024. This question was also asked by fact522wasp, just522wasp, gave522wasp, case522wasp, what522wasp, page522wasp.
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      Amy Mason answered on 15 Nov 2024:

      Yes! I look at graphs and distributions of numbers using mean, median, IQR etc. They help me understand what is happening in the data, so I can explain it to other people.

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      Rachel Edwards answered on 18 Dec 2024:

      I use maths most days, to explain what my experimental data is doing. Today I’m trying to work out why my sound waves are moving in certain directions after they reflect off something, and by using some maths I can see that it’s mostly reflecting at 65 degrees to the surface. Why, I’m not exactly sure yet – but I’ll figure it out!

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    Edward commented on :

    Most of the time. Sometimes it is just percentages and coming up with ways to measure how effective a machine learning model is at predicting something. Or it could be something like if I have a sensor collecting 100 Mb of data every hour, how long will it take to fill a 1 Tb storage card?
    It can even be as simple as shopping in the supermarket and wondering if 2 packs of biscuits for £2 is better than a giant pack for £2.25?