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Number Confidence Week - What's your favourite hobby?

AifeAife Community Manager Posts: 3,032 Boards Guru
edited November 2021 in General Chat
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I have a challenge for you that fits in really nicely with Number Confidence Week. Have a think about your favourite hobby and how it might use maths.

For me, I love drawing and painting. I didn't think about maths being involved, but there's lots involved! When drawing or painting, you're mixing colours with the right ratios, choosing the right size canvasses or frames, estimating how much paint you need, and also understanding proportions. There are lots of ways that we use numbers when doing our favourite hobbies.

What's your favourite hobby and how does it use maths?

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    DurhamjaideDurhamjaide Posts: 1,225 Wise Owl
    I like postcrossing it’s a project where I send a postcard to someone in the world and recive it from another person and I have to pay for stamps and that involves maths
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    BrookeeBrookee Posts: 1,327 Wise Owl
    @Aife This is very interesting! Thanks so much for bringing this up!

    I love reading. I suppose in terms of maths, I always count how many pages are left before the next chapter to see whether or not I can push another chapter before going to sleep haha.
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    GreenTeaGreenTea Posts: 12,938 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Origami. I guess that's maths... Got to cut paper down to right measurements. Count the folds correctly or it doesn't work, folding also creates shapes
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    AifeAife Community Manager Posts: 3,032 Boards Guru
    These are all really interesting, thank you for sharing @Durhamjaide, @Brookee & @GreenTea. There is definitely lots of maths involved in all of your favourite hobbies :)

    Maybe somethings don't get better, but we do. We get stronger. We learn to live with our situations as messy and ugly as they are. We fix what we can and we adapt to what we can't. Maybe some of us will never fully be okay, but at least we're here. We're still trying. We're doing the best we can. That's worth celebrating too ❤
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    maryam852maryam852 Posts: 187 Helping Hand
    @GreenTea Yes! That is definitely geometry and don't forget what other skills it includes (patience, following instructions)!
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    AislingDMAislingDM Moderator Posts: 1,666 Extreme Poster
    God this is actually so cool, I promise I've always hated maths and not been good at it but I was always super jealous (in a kind way) of people who were good at it. Changing my perspective to see how important numbers are to my day-to-day subconscious actions is awesome <3 I'm grateful to you for posting this xx Even something as 'small' as counting reps at the gym and making sure I do the number I intended uses maths! xx
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    RileyRiley Moderator Posts: 991 Part of The Mix Family
    I've mentioned it a couple times on the boards but I'm a big fan of video games, playing them is what I spend most of my free time doing honestly! Aside from the fact that video games are literally built using numbers and maths there's also a lot of maths going on on the player side depending on what kind of games you play. :D For example I play quite a few JRPGs (Japanese Role Playing Games) that require you to do quick maths on the fly to make sure all your characters can do well in the battles that crop up. Or you can just spam attack and see what happens I suppose. ;)
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    AislingDMAislingDM Moderator Posts: 1,666 Extreme Poster
    I love that for you @Riley !! like especially because it's something you already love so much and makes you so happy. xx
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