Refuting Evolution

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To be honest, most people never use anything beyond basic math outside of the classroom.

I never have.

There's a big argument about this right now- do we really need to make kids take, for instance, Algebra II? Since basic algebra and some geometry will be all most people need in their lives, there's a line of thought that making kids take more is like making them take advanced chemistry.

Many math teachers, of course, disagree vehemently with this, since learning math is also learning how to think logically- they argue that the goal isn't learning the math itself, but learning how to think.

Well I disagree vehemently but for a different reason. These kids are going to be the future mathematicians, physicists, astronomers, engineers, scientists, chemists, etc. etc. And these fields are growing so rapidly that you have no time to learn a lot of things which is why degrees as you go higher up gets so specialized, kids will have to get good at math before they enter uni. Math is not something you learn in a course, it's something you get a feel for after doing years and years of it. (Don't you kinda feel like high school curriculum could be a lot more intensive for a lot of stuff? I feel like if we taught them "real" stuff instead of making them play with the basics for so many years they wouldn't be so bored with school).

Kids these days are so afraid of math and they think it's something they'll never use. Well, you're not going to get the chance to enter a math intensive field if you don't do well in it or have preconceived notions that it's something "other people use".