Nice post!
As a person who took just one course of College Algebra and struggled to get an 89.5% by the end, I learned enough to highly appreciate the science and its place in our universe.
For me, I place much more value on subjects I struggle to understand than those that come easily.
Peace
The best teacher I had in High School was my math teacher [Mrs.Cunningham, Cocoa High, Fla., 1962]. If she had taught Art, I would have been an artist. I think you know where I'm going with this. Luck of the draw in my "impressionable period". Thank you Mrs.C, wherever you are, for my 35-year career in engineering and technology!
You remind me of my college statistics class. There were no final exams or midterms. There were 4 equations. Each one was 25% of my grade. You either got it right, or you didnt. I got 2 right and 2 wrong and limped out with a C. Nowadays, all you do is plug your numbers into a computer algorithm and it does the calculating for you. It’s good to know basically how the algorithm works. It makes you aware when statisticians are tweaking the variables to manipulate results.
CC