Math in Real Life: Table of Contents

By far the most common question that I have been asked over the years regarding mathematics has been, ”When am I going to use math in real life?” That is, at least, the way I choose to perceive it. Unfortunately, more often than not, this question has come my way in the form of the following absurd absolute statement, “I’m never going to use this in real life!”

This erroneous perception of math’s practical usage has been the most prevalent problem in our education system, and by addressing it, the beauty of mathematics and its relevance reveals itself. Information gets absorbed faster. The details get scrutinized and people begin to recognize the occasions for which they have, can, and are already using math in their own lives.

This is the ultimate purpose of this section, to apply what we have learned from studying The Language of Mathematics to enhance our lives.

Content for this section will be organized in the following categories:

1. Mathematics of Prohibition

1. Games and Gambling
2. Personal Finance
3. Food and Farming
4. Food and Fitness
5. Economics and Politics
6. Business and Investment
7. Energy and Environment
8. Art, Design, and Dance
9. Film and Music (Sight and Sound)
10. Science and Technology
11. Construction and Engineering
12. Comic Books
13. Miscellaneous

i. Mathematics of Prohibition

Section 1: Mathematics of Prohibition

• Series coming soon-ish now that prohibition on cannabis has ended in Canada.

Section 2: Articles on Prohibition

• The Dominoes Are Falling, the Tides Are Turning, the War on Drugs Is Ending, but Prohibitionists Just Won’t Give up the Ghost: How to End Prohibition
• Canadians Can Grow Tobacco for Personal Use; We Should Be Able to Do the Same with Cannabis
• Coming Out of the Dark Ages, Psychedelic Science, and Freedom Over Consciousness: Introduction to the Benefits of Cannabis, Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, LSD, DMT, and Ibogaine
• The Five Stages of Destruction as it Relates to America’s War on Drugs: “The House I Live In”
• Happy 420!
• Four Documentaries on Cannabis: the basics, the economics, the history, and the benefits
• A Brief Summary of America’s War on Drugs
• Washington State and Colorado Join the Fray: Cannabis Legalized
• How to End Prohibition: Supporting Grassroots Organizations

I. Games and Gambling

Section 1: Shooting Dice, Playing Craps

• The Beauty of Dice, Part 1: Probability Distribution for the Sum of Two 6-sided Die
Article: "The Seduction of Dice, The Philosophy of Craps"
• How to Play Street Dice: A Simplified Craps Game

Section 2: 10 by 10 Grid and Math Puzzle Playlist

• ASMR Math: 10 by 10 Math Puzzle: a Pattern Recognition Game
Article: "An Exercise for the Mind: a 10 by 10 Math Puzzle: a Pattern Recognition Game: Meditation on an Open Maze (Updates)"
• ASMR Math: How to Set-up a Square Grid, 3-4-5 Pythagorean Triple Right Angle Triangle
• ASMR Math: Setting Up Our 10 x 10 Grid and Playing a Pattern Recognition Puzzle Game (Live Stream)
• ASMR Math: Let's play our 10 by 10 Math Puzzle, a Pattern Recognition Game, Live Stream, Day 1
• ASMR Math: Let's play our 10 by 10 Math Puzzle, a Pattern Recognition Game, Live Stream, Day 2

Section 3: Monopoly Playlist

• How to Play Monopoly: Variant Rules: Fast Rapid Games, Multiple Games per Gaming Sessions
Article: "How to Play Monopoly: Variant Rules: Fast Rapid Games, Multiple Games per Gaming Sessions: Including Sample Live Stream Gameplay"
• Monopoly Variant Rules: Introduction: The Rules, The Mathematics, and Live Stream Gameplay
• Monopoly Variant Rules Gameplay: Learning Math by Playing Board Games [ASMR Math, How to]

Section 4: Backgammon Playlist

• Let Me Show You My Grandmother's Backgammon Board: Me and Grandma Playing Backgammon
• Let's Play Backgammon, Let Me Show You My Game (Live Stream)
• Playing Backgammon with Grandma, Live Stream, Day 1, Round 1, Happy Mother's Day Everyone - Day 1, Round 2 & 3 - Day 2, Round 4
• Let's Play Backgammon, Live Streams: How to Play Tutorials, Beginners, Introduction

Section 5: Chess

• Playing Chess by the Fire: My Marble Chess Set and a 4 and 5 Move Checkmate Sequence

II. Personal Finance

Section 1: Time Management

• Time Management, Using Ratios to Track Your Projects
• How to Study: Tip #2: Longer is Better (Introduction to Efficiency): Math IIIb #141 (ASMR)

Section 2: Personal Finance Playlist, Series

• Introduction and Disclaimer
• Invest in Yourself: Health, Time, Budget, Network, Experience
• Timing Markets, Time Frame, Risk Tolerance, Investing, Fractals
• Consider the Implications of Automation
• Thoughts on Cryptocurrencies and My History With Bitcoin
• Currency, Money and the Economy, Part 1: Graphing US Dollar and CPI
• Currency, Money and Economy, Part 2: Gold, S&P, Superman, Income, Bitcoin
• Cryptocurrencies & Blockchain, How & Why They Work, Visualize Bitcoin Need
• Open Discussion on the Economy, Investing, and Personal Finance, Twitch Live Stream
• Let’s Explore the Possibilities of ICOs and Cryptocurrencies: Security Tokens
• ASMR Math: Return on Investment (ROI): US vs Canadian Dollars vs Bitcoin (Personal Finance)

III. Food and Farming

Section 1: Community Supported Agriculture, CSA

• Part 1: Introduction - Community Supported Agriculture, CSA
• Part 2: Crop and Farm Layout, plus the Greenhouse
• Part 3: Logistics of a CSA, Collecting Some Data - Cost and Revenue
• Part 4: The Spreadsheet, a To Do List, a Simple Calculation, Yield for Broccoli
• Part 5: The Spreadsheet, a Flowchart, The Big Picture
• Part 6: Example #1: Calculating Crop Yield
• Part 7: Example #2: Calculating Total Row-Feet of Crop Needed for Our Menu
• Part 8: An Update and Some Random Thoughts on Community Supported Agriculture, CSA
• Update from La Belle Besogne Farm for May, June, and July 2013
• Part 9: Mathematics of Farming: Update, January 2015

IV. Food and Fitness

Section 1: Mathematics in the Kitchen

• ASMR Math: How to Make Tea: 5 Ingredients, 31 Blends, Two Ways, Binary, Pascal's Triangle, nCr
• How to Make Crab Apple Butter: Introduction and Recipe - Crab Apple Page, All Videos
• Honey Chocolate Chip Cookies, Recipe and Intro to Live Stream - Live Stream Baking Session
• Let's Make Some Power Food: Dates, Eggs, Tomatoes, Feta, How to, Recipe: Twitch Live Stream
• How to Make Persian Kookoo (Kuku) and a Sweet Rice Dish - Vegetarian Recipe, Twitch Live Stream
• Jarring 38 Pounds of Honey: ASMR Math

V. Economics and Politics

Section 1: Economics

• ASMR Math: Introduction to the Mathematics of Economics
• ASMR Math: Maximizing Revenue Problem, Completing the Square, Interpreting the Graph (Economics)
• ASMR Math: Visualizing Disruptive Innovation, Monopolies, and Mergers and Acquisitions (Economics)
• ASMR Math: How Interest Rates Affect Our Society, Differential Accumulation, Exponential Growth
• ASMR Math: Differential Accumulation, Capital as Power, Resistance, Asymptotes and Creorder

Section 2: Politics

• ASMR Math: Election Statistics: Excluding California, Donald Trump Got More of the Popular Vote

VI. Business and Investment

• ASMR Math: Return on Investment (ROI): US vs Canadian Dollars vs Bitcoin (Personal Finance)
• How to Study: Tip #2: Longer is Better (Introduction to Efficiency): Math IIIb #141 (ASMR)
• Time Management, Using Ratios to Track Your Projects

VII. Energy and Environment

• In the works

VIII. Art, Design, and Dance

Section 1: The Art of Dirk Marwig

• Part 1: Introduction, Interview, Designs and Works
• Part 2: Creating Your Space and Setting Up a Grid
• Part 3: Perspective, Depth, Elements, and Ratios
• Part 4: The Golden Ratio, Rectangle, and Spiral
• Part 5: Using the Fibonacci Numbers to Create the Golden Rectangle
• Part 6: Chaos, Order, and Op Art - Five Paintings by Dirk Marwig
• Part 7: Building Three Objects: Freeform, Symmetry, Golden Rectangle
• Part 8: Building a Bucky-Ball and a Rhombicosidodecahedron with Bamboo & Zap-Straps

Section 2: The Mathematics of Sufi Whirling

• Part 1: Introduction to The Mathematics of Sufi Whirling
• Part 2: Interview with Farima Berenji
• Part 3: In the Studio with Farima Berenji (Dance, How to)

IX. Film and Music (Sight and Sound)

• Mathematics in Movies: Analysing 'Arrival', The Implications of Their Time Travel (ASMR Math)

X. Science and Technology

Biology:

• Female Reproductive Cycle: Graphing the Menstrual Cycle, a Cyclic Function

Healtcare:

• PLAYLIST: COVID-19, Wuhan Coronavirus Data Analysis

Physics:

• How Fast is a Human Punch? - Physics: Kinematics: Calculating Speed
• Division by Zero, Why We Can’t Travel at the Speed of Light, Einstein’s Relativity
• ASMR Math: Physics: Statics: Let's Take a Look at a Torque Problem (Forces)

Time:

• Why the Perception of Time Varies with Age: Life, Death and Living on Borrowed Time
• Mathematics in Movies: Analysing 'Arrival', The Implications of Their Time Travel (ASMR Math)

XI. Construction and Engineering

• Measurements, Imperial and Metric: How to Attach Sawtooth Hooks to a Frame
• How To Hang and Center Wall Art: Measurements, Imperial and Metric
• How to Set-up a Square Grid, 3-4-5 Pythagorean Triple Right Angle Triangle
• Visualizing Length, Area, and Volume

XII. Comic Books

• All about Comic Books: Introduction
• How and Why I Buy Comic Books: Collecting, Investing, Reading
• ASMR MATH: Investing in Comic Books: A Primer and Two Spreadsheets, Introduction, How to
• Comic Book Haul #19: Valiant Comics History: Rai, Harbinger, Solar, Ninjak
• Valiant's X-O Manowar and Vertigo's DMZ: Comic Book Haul #20 [ASMR Math, Investing, Review]

XIII. Miscellaneous

• How to Study: Tip #2: Longer is Better - Introduction to Efficiency