Friday, April 10, 2015

Mathematics is the relationship of questions and facts involving magnitude

Mathematics is the relationship of questions and facts involving magnitude.


Which comes first the chicken or the egg?

Which comes first the question or the answer?

Facts in relationship one to another is the very definition of a function or equation.

The answer therefore is the ordered steps needed to solve the question, function or equation.

The Jeopardy page is the question, function or equation.

The Subject Pie page is the ordered steps needed to solve the question.

One can state the two statements above as an equality or equation with both sides equal!

Word problem or equation = facts in relationship.

One can begin with the facts or the questions.  One implies the other except in very special and high order mathematics.

If one has learned to deeply process facts by asking questions.  One can solve questions by evaluating the facts in an orderly fashion.