School spends a long time “wasting” our time but learning things is a great way to learn how to interpret information and make actual informed decisions

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    Also sometimes it actually just is good to know maths. Engineers, researchers, actuaries, accountants…there’s a huge range of practical applications for maths that’s more complicated than basic arithmetic in a very direct fashion, before you even get into jobs that more indirectly use abstract reasoning learnt through high school maths.

    • yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      132·
      1 month ago

      Sure. And for the 90% of kids who correctly say they won’t use math, it doesn’t matter. We are doing math so they can learn to navigate formal systems of reasoning. We could honestly teach deductive logic instead, or set theory, or group theory, or finite field topology. It doesn’t have to be algebra or anything remotely practical.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        61·
        1 month ago

        deductive logic instead, or set theory, or group theory, or finite field topology

        All of these are maths, though?