Yup. I don't recall actually learning anything in math class from 7th grade through my senior year. I learned trig and geometry from my shop and programming c

Yup. I don't recall actually learning anything in math class from 7th grade through my senior year. I learned trig and geometry from my shop and programming courses... Trying to do graphics in QBasic and determine lengths and angles in carpentry gives concrete examples. It's not as though most math sprang spontaneously from pure thought-stuff - at some point, architects, inventors, astronomers and others in concrete endeavors discovered these rules.