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Integrating the Bible with the school’s mathematics curriculum provides one of the best opportunities to demonstrate to students God’s orderliness, precision, dependability, and systematic character. A Christian school that is content only with the teaching of manipulative skills of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry blinds the student’s perception to all but a fraction of the glory of God reflected in the unique mirror of mathematics.
Mathematics expresses God’s creation in its absoluteness. Compared to other fields of science, it is quite free from contradiction. Its theorems and concepts, once established, seldom change with time and progress. It maintains rigid and exacting regulations, which show God’s perfect order. Mathematics proclaims for the student that God is unchangeable. Of all the academic disciplines, mathematics is unique. Plants and animals are born, they grow, they bear fruit and multiply, and they become old and die; however, number concepts are not born, they do not grow, they do not multiply, and they do not become old and die.
Helping our students see the manifestation of God in the discipline of mathematics should be a major concern of ours. Once again, students need to view the Bible as the lens through which every subject is studied. Looking through the lens of the Bible at a mathematics book, we see the unchanging mathematical calculations revealing the unchanging God. We marvel at the absolute consistency of mathematical principles and recognize that the Bible presents the eternal inventor of that consistency!
Students and teachers must be engaged in both the study of mathematics and the study of the Bible in order for this kind of integration to take place. Christian school teachers need to search for ways to involve pupils in learning mathematics from a biblical worldview and life view. The study of mathematics should result in a greater appreciation of God and His works in creation.
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