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?

Was it really useful or do you think it was pretty insignificant. Like if you go through high school learning very little in your math classes based on your experience would it have been or was it rough if you had been this person that didn't take in much from this particular class?

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bowman81 · M

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.