My only take on high school math is fuck trigonometry — people who get to complex numbers can treat all of trig as a mildly interesting corollary, essentially no one else needs to know it.
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This is a really good take. I tutored math for ppl trying to pass GED for a couple years and I thought a lot about whether it was more embarrassing that I had forgotten how to help them with most of it or that they had to learn it at all as a condition to just get a normal job.
I just feel deeply, deeply sorry for all the high school math teachers who have to teach trig, all the while having to dodge the questions about why it’s useful because students will extrapolate the genuine answer (it isn’t) to all of math.
