• Question: how often do you use maths in your everyday work?

    Asked by wynn534smew2 on 29 Sep 2025. This question was also asked by easy534kame9, Sadie.
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      Caroline Roche answered on 29 Sep 2025:

      I could go a few days without using maths at work but rarely a week.
      The amount of maths I use varies based on the timeline of where I am in a project, there is alot more maths during the design and implementation stages, as I work things out, than during the test stages.
      But I also use maths to work out my hours every week. I have flexible hours so I can work shorter hours Monday and Tuesday but then I have to work out where I can work longer hours for the rest of the week while also making sure I take enough time off for lunch/breaks.

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      Tim Chapman answered on 7 Nov 2025:

      I use a lot of maths, working out customer quotes, timesheets, network and computer sizing, there are many variations. In IT, no matter what role you do, there will be some, even basic maths required.

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      Neil Barnby answered on 17 Nov 2025:

      I use maths all the time. I use it to analyse figures in data to see how people are using our digital tools and I use it to create our objectives and key results which show our bosses how our tools are doing such as how pleased our users are and how often they use it and how much time we save them.

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      Luke Humphrey answered on 20 Nov 2025:

      As a computational scientist, it depends. Often the majority of actual calculation is done by computers. However, when writing software the maths needs to be encoded efficiently and when writing journal articles the maths needs to be explained clearly.

      Taking the time to understand the maths helps to make sensible inferences and decisions. There are plenty of times when my first instinct about something turned out to be incorrect once I starting thinking critically through the mathematics of it.

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