Mathematics as a Worship, Character, and Career-builder

Dear Student,

We all know how Mathematics is a great career-builder but do we appreciate how much Mathematics can be a character-builder too?

Let's list down some potential qualities, virtues and skills that Mathematics problem-solving can cultivate and develop among Math students:

- Analytical thinking and Accuracy

- Beauty appreciation of figures, proofs, and patterns

- Curiosity, Carefulness, Cautiousness, Critical, and Creative thinking skills

- Discovery, Designing, deciphering, and decoding

- Extended thinking, and Entrepreneurship

- Focus-minded

- Goal-setting

- Honesty

- Integrity, Inquisitiveness, Investigativeness, and Intelligence

- Judiciousness

- Knowledgeability

- Logic and Level-headedness

- Methodical-minded

- Numeracy-literate

- Objectivity and Orderliness

- Prudence, Patience, Perseverance, Precision, Planning and Problem-solving skills

- Quickness of mind

- Reasoning skills and Result-oriented

- Solution-minded

- Truthfulness

- Usefulness

- Verification-minded

- Wisdom

- Xcellence

- Y(why)-mindedness

- Zestfulness


Dear Student,

Graduating with a well-developed character, you will be ready for your great career. After solving a problem successfully, whether mathematical or general, you feel a sense of achievement, accomplishment, satisfaction, success, and victory. This is your immediate internal reward. In the long-run, successful problem-solving will open the door for you towards great careers and future. Such great career and character-building potential of Math can even cause one to stand in awe of God as well. 

Thus, Math is potentially a great worship-builder, character-builder, and career-builder besides being great fun too with its puzzles, riddles, and games providing a good healthy educational pastime and social entertainment.