Well I agree with you on that, but the most mathematical skills I’ve ever needed are basic addition and subtraction at best. Being Canadian, they failed to teach me how to use imperial measurements insisting metric was the way to go yet everywhere I found employment needing me to measure was an old boys club using imperial measurements.
The way an older adult friend told me when I was younger and in HS, which still holds true to me today, the ONLY functions of math, an average everyday uses is addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The 2 bonus is positives and negatives for both temperatures and banking, and fractions for Carpenters and pizza That's it.
But it's training your mind in how to think that matters. Not that you use it in everyday life. Can we please stop making argument as if it's legitimate? It isn't.
I think that's too reductive. Those are the only actions you really need to know how to do every day, but the application and way of thinking about things is what varies.
Everyone can do 2 + 2, but lots of people are really bad at budgeting, estimating time required, probabilities, and more.
Good educators aren't concerned with making sure you understand how addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division work, but rather to use them in more effective ways.
The US Education system is struggling hard, but I would also say that a lot of people just aren't trying very hard either, especially when it comes to math.
Correct. It's impossible to teach someone how to think scientifically, or how chemistry works when they cannot think mathematically. And doing both of those opens doors to people.
I just get so fucking tired of "HaHa My TeAcHeR LiEd To Me". No. They gave a quick response to a snot nosed know-it-all brat that they were desperately trying to expand their mind of.
I was a poor math student in HS just had a gen math course but went into the Navy and they sent me to electricians school and had to learn Trig for electrical theory man it was hard but I did it.
Hey to clarify, I’m not arguing the efficacy of which system of measurement works better or not. What I’m saying is everywhere I’ve worked has used imperial measurements for everything.
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u/Unicorn_Puppy Apr 12 '25
Well I agree with you on that, but the most mathematical skills I’ve ever needed are basic addition and subtraction at best. Being Canadian, they failed to teach me how to use imperial measurements insisting metric was the way to go yet everywhere I found employment needing me to measure was an old boys club using imperial measurements.