Course Reflection

In previous blog posts I’ve talked about the frustration I had growing up in the Canadian education system. We were always taught how math worked, but we were never shown why it worked or how it evolved. This lack of context made it frustrating because we didn’t have the context to understand the big picture of what was really happening.

As a finance student, mathematics is a critical component of my education. We calculate the returns that a prospective investment could make, and we do this by forecasting future cash production of an investment. The concepts of exponents and algebra are critical, and learning about the history of these concepts and being provided more of a historical view of them was fascinating.

My favourite part about the class was the history component. I personally am a huge fan of history and discussing artefacts and mathematical methods from ancient societies was really cool.