>>14328706Excluding people with obviously mathematical jobs (engineer, physicist, etc.) 99% of people never need math beyond grade school arithmetic. Teaching math in middle school and higher isn't about math per se, it's about teaching kids to memorize and follow algorithms. When you're doing 100 exercises on applying the quadratic formula in 7th grade algebra what you're actually doing is learning how to make Big Macs all day without fucking up. The higher grade you're in the more complicated the algorithms and the more flexibility needed to apply them, corresponding to jobs where you're expected to actually make decisions and shit instead of just doing exactly what the boss tells you do to while worrying about when you'll be replaced by a robot. Then finally at some hypothetical point in college if you're still taking math classes it's because you're going into a field where you actually need it and the math becomes the point.
