Friday, January 22, 2010

How Math Relates to My Research Task

My research task is about child soldiers in Africa. Math relates to child soldiers in many ways. First, math relates to child soldiers in a way that there is numbers of how many children are in the military or other armed forces. the number is 300,000 children! Also, if children are in the military at a young age, they won't be able to learn math and go to a good school to get a good job. Many kids wish they could learn math for education but they are stuck fighting in a sick and cruel war. Math is all around these poor children. Twenty percent of the children in Africa die before the age of five in war. I personally think that is really extreme. That would mean that out of one hundred children under the age of five, twenty would die. There were also graphs that I had to read. Some were a little confusing but when I looked at them closely, it wasn't that hard to read. Some graphs were the death rates of children, how long they've been at war and how many other people, other than child soldiers, died during this nonsense war.

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