When I was in H/S years ago I had a real problem with math. I had a teacher who was so afraid of the “students” he would just let us do whatever we wanted. When he had a breakdown we got a sub teacher who was using his vacation time to teach. He was a Airline Pilot And Vet from the Korean War, no nonsense, totally impressive from the minute he entered the classroom you knew he was not someone you wanted to mess with. Within those two weeks I learned more about math than I had in the previous two years. What a great teacher he was. Problem today is he would not be allowed to teach because he did not have a “Teaching Certificate”
I can thank my dad, who had an 8th grade education, (probably equivalent to 12th grade now) for telling me the importance of math.
I’m not a math genius, but I have a degree in accountancy, information systems and finance and I can tell you math is important.