You Can't Teach Math Or Learn How To Apply It Without Dealing With Hypothetical Scenarios

Well it's time to go back to crazy old man who's a Math major. So it's really something to say that he says, "I don't deal with hypothetical scenarios -- I only deal with the actual." The statement is laughable for this reason -- how can you teach Mathematics WITHOUT a hypothetical scenario? Besides, part of applied higher Mathematics (namely in the area of statistics) is the use of a hypothesis testing since it is part of the daily scientific method. You have to observe, question, formulate hypothesis, experiment, analyze data and conclude -- which you can't have the experiment if you don't have the hypothesis.

It would be stupid to simply teach Math without knowing how it's applied. Perhaps one of the reasons why students tend to loathe Math can be rooted on, "How am I going to apply it." I admit, I used to hate higher Math a lot because I didn't find the beauty of it in the job of others. But the more I got outside my Math-loathing self -- the more I see the difficulty creates the beauty of Mathematics. It's meant to be hard but not impossible. Then there's the reality that Mathematics can be applied -- yet the scientific method requires you to deal with hypothetical scenarios.

Now, let's take a good example at how to apply higher Trigonometry in real life. We can think of the scenario where we are trying to apply it in a construction project. A good engineer would have to think of several hypothetical scenarios such as building an overpass (which both sides may contain a right triangle hence Trigonometry is required) to determine the length required aside from the materials required. Now don't tell me that's not a hypothetical scenario when the engineer starts to determine the possible lengths per side and he wants to make sure that both sides of planned project (that's the framework of the overpass) are well-measured?

Maybe, I should mention that his belief that the "magic money" of 4Ps would create jobs, have a three times return to the government and has a 5.88 multiplier effect is all but hypothetical without the actual? How sure is this crazy old man that PHP 2,500 is spent on necessities and 500 is spent on other stuff? Did he put drones on every 4Ps recipient to determine that happened? Did he put microchips in the cashouts to determine where the money was spent? His 4Ps is also full of hypothetical scenarios that if people spend the PHP 3,000 they get per month and if they comply with the requirements (which many don't). Pretty much -- the idea of a Mathematician who doesn't deal with hypothetical scenarios is oh so stupid!