When Aunt Sally was in school, she played a math game with flash cards called 'around the world'. Little did she know that mathematics was a global concept. As Aunt Sally grew she found out that math is used in a variety of ways. For example when you visit Europe, you must know how much a dollar is worth in most European countries (1 euro is just about 1.3023 US dollars as of 10/19/2012). You have to use math to figure that out. Do you know that when you are eating dinner at 7:00pm in New York City everyone is eating breakfast at 7:00 am in Beijing China? Time zones are another mathematical concept.
In this lesson on math around the world you will see some real world uses of math in the lives of people from other cultures. You will also play some mathematical logic games from other countries that are fun (you may not want to stop playing). You just might come to find that learning mathematics is FUNdamental!