The sad reality here...is that a kid gets around to just memorizing the formulas and never grasps how you’d ever apply it. So you end up with a punk arriving at University....with no true grasp of math or the various applications that you could use to solve a business or life problem.
Note, we have all these idiots around who got deep into debt, but no grasp of the interest rates and what they really meant.
I’d rather see every kid given a workbook around the 4th or 5th grade, with a fake company situation and the various ways laid out to use math to analyze profits, losses, and expansion. Math is no good....unless you can use the stuff for real applications.
I always found doing geometry proofs quickly the most fun.