Hate to break it to you all, but there aren’t that many people who really need math skills above oh say geometry to get by in life. There really aren’t.
As long as one understands the concept of interest and how it affects finances over time, one can really do quite well in life.
Hell, I would be happy if most people would actually take the time to balance their checkbook instead of trusting the bank’s monthly report.
But to imply that the US is going down the tubes because our high school math teachers aren’t geniuses who can integrate in their sleep I think is just plain incorrect.
I enjoy math almost as much as you guys, but I certainly don’t use trig, calculus, linear algebra or statistics a great deal and have, in fact, forgotten alot of it.
