After Covid, only one in four students know math
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Carpentry uses basic trig. Gambling uses probability and estimated results. More basic, shopping usually uses basic multiplication or division.
The average person doesn't need to know more than the most basic trig and calc, except on a conceptual level to recognize it when they see it. But they do need to know the actual core basics.
The sheer number of people who don't know the concept of a stepped tax rate and how one works is staggering. And that's REALLY basic math, simple addition and multiplication.
Try being a carpenter that can't add fractions in his head and watch everyone else laugh at you.
Try being a normie that can't conceptualize statistics trying to deal with Covid numbers and freaking out.
Math is important.