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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]OP, are you a homeschooling parent who isn't very good at math and resents having to teach it?[/b]

Math is incredibly important.  The next time you go to a Starbucks or retail store or restaurant, hand someone $7.03 for your $6.43 check after they've already opened the drawer.  You'll figure out pretty quickly who is good at math.  See how long it takes some friends to figure out how to tip on a check.  Do you have friends who are always short of money because they can't do a budget?

Plus in the future, science/tech jobs will be some of the best jobs.  Kids need to be equipped to take those jobs.

Everyone should have a base of knowledge.  Not everyone needs to take calculus, so that can probably be an elective.[/quote]

Hey, hey, hey, where did that come from?

It sounded to me like OP's child is failing math and she's choosing to blame The Mathematics Obsession.

But I guess we all come to this with our own biases. I'm a homeschooling parent who thinks there is intrinsic value in knowing things, and also a very great value in struggling to succeed in academic subjects, and that learning shouldn't always be fun but that mastery is pleasurable in and of itself, and that the worth of one's education cannot be measured by one's household income.[/quote]

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