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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ArishMell · 70-79, M

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.