Would you say the math you learned in high school was useful after you graduated? Was it useful for your career or college or not very important?

I pretty much blew math off in school. What little I learned was gone over summer vacation each year.

Then I got a job in a machine shop and had to go relearn Trig. I have found I needed basic math, algebra, and some trig in everyday life and chores and hobbies.

If there was one outstanding weakness in my education it was the inability of teachers to relate the math to something that I could see would be practical and useful during my life. It was, but assigning pages after pages of problems to be done as homework was no way to get that message across to me.

I was [i]taught[/i] Maths... but [i]learnt[/i] little of it. I struggled with it, and did not like it!

One teacher wrote in my Report that I had large gaps in my basic knowledge, that need addressing - but I did not realise that and he had never offered to help me.

Thus blowing out of the water any hopes of a career in Science or Engineering - both being highly mathematical of course.

In much later years I took employment that needed more maths as well as basic arithmetic; so took a standard school-qualification course in evening-classes, ending in the national school examination, to help me. I was among the very few middle-aged people in an exam hall full of mainly teenagers!

Outside of work I do use some simple maths - mainly basic geometry, trigonometry and various formulae. On top of arithmetic of course.

Of very little use actually as we forget most of it as we just have theoretical knowledge and zero application. But real life problems teach us better maths as we analyse the problems deep and apply common sense to validate.

Many subjects such as calculus trigonometry etc. can actually be eliminated from school syllabus and included for specific studies. It's a bully subject for many.

Instead common sense mathematics with logical reasoning can be included so everyone can benefit.

I wish I had studied maths more, it comes up in interviews over here now & I've found I can't even do the basics. Not good for future employment

Personally speaking, I did so many maths courses when getting my degree. NONE of them helped me in my career.

Knowing math has helped me. I work in medical labs and despite sounding like a career that uses alot of math I really do not.
Now with that being said has it helped me? Yes
Most useful has been Algebra
Sometimes its helpful to calculate a percentage at work or to understand if a test passed by recognizing why my slope looks bad on a comparison report.
I also calculate standard deviations alot but this is all basic stuff and I have computer programs that help me.
Also in general life I use basic math alot running a business.
I wasn't good at advanced math in school because I wasn't taught well and then math keeps building on what you already know.
But Algebra for some reason was easy and I use it today.

I haven't graduated yet, but for me it will be important because I want to study science at college.

I learned all I needed to know in kindergarten

Totally irrelevant.

About 50% useful