Department of Vocational and Special Education, University of Calabar, Nigeria

Abstract

With the use of Mathematics and especially now with the support of the mathematical processing and control machine
called the computer, significant advancement are realized in science, technology and arts. This paper therefore, identifies seven
educational values of mathematics, paying particular attention to its aesthetic value in man’s physical environment. In x-raying
the usefulness of mathematics in the different areas of life, the paper holds that mathematics is universal not only to science and
science related areas, engineering and technology, but also in a way it makes itself relevant to the development of the social
science and the liberal arts. Hence, one could almost say that without mathematics, the world could not have been what it is
today.