Math makes you more intelligent as it fotces you to solve problems in so many areas and in so many different ways. It challenges you to think in new ways and involves understanding conceptual relationships.
Agreed. But higher math requirements for everyone, regardless of their aptitudes and aspirations does not make sense because we are not all the same. God did not make us that way.
I happen to have been pretty good at math and enjoyed it. But I am weak in other areas, for example languages.
I also am no musician. I took piano lessons for 10 year and it was clear I was never going to be very good at it (however I excelled in music theory ... which is mostly math). What if everyone were required to be proficient in 2 languages and meet a level of musical ability to get a high school diploma or a college degree? I suspect a lot of people like me would fail. Yet I have no object to being required to take foreign language classes or musical lessons … I think it is good to be exposed to many different things.