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I just don't care for it. I know it matters and makes up all our rules for the physical world and everything but it's not interesting to me. I'm much more interested in social/psychological studies of life, so math talk just flies over my head most of the time.
Also would agree with you about the educational system though. Growing up I was always held back and taken aside because I wasn't doing the math either fast enough or "the right way". I learned different tricks for multiplication than were taught at my school, but I would get to the correct answer. I was punished for this. It also shouldn't matter how fast you can do math, as long as you're getting the right answer. I fucking hated "math minutes" and had a lot of shitty teachers. Had some good ones too though.
If you don’t mind, what the hell is a math minute? Is that some form of torture where you have to do math in a minute?
Yes exactly that. They'd give us a sheet of equations and we were supposed to complete it in one minute. It's usually basic stuff like addition or multiplication, but mind you this was when we're just learning it like grade 2-3. Then they would pu t us in groups based on how many equations we got through.