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Summary: Math Is Useless By Alan Bass
“Math is Useless”
By Alan Bass in Math Study Skills I labeled this section “Math is Useless” to get your attention. Now that I have it, completely banish the idea that “math is useless from you mind forever”. If our nation (or planet) could pick one subject for everyone to be really good at, it would be without any doubt, mathematics. Math is the foundation for every science. Math is the ultimate in critical and analytical thinking. Math fires rockets into space, shows insurance companies what is fair price, tells psychologists that therapy X works and the drug Y doesn’t. It is true that nobody is going to hire you to factor a polynomial or solve a linear equation. But people are also not going to hire you to write essays on the Civil War,
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