Salandriagado wrote:Geneviev wrote:Some understanding of how numbers work is important, but most of what is taught in math classes in school never becomes useful for most people.
The thing that is being taught in maths lessons is useful for absolutely everybody who manages to learn it. It has fuck all to do with numbers, though. The stuff with numbers is a nice side-effect that you get on the way to the point of the lesson.
And what's that thing?