Please don't fall into the "math is useless, why do we have to learn this?" camp. The math taught in high-school is pretty simple stuff and if we frowned upon

Please don't fall into the "math is useless, why do we have to learn this?" camp. The math taught in high-school is pretty simple stuff and if we frowned upon innumeracy as much as we do illiteracy, people would just learn it. Reading is hard but we spend the time and make the students do it anyway. We don't give them the "who needs this reading crap" script. Math skills are life skills for a thinking citizen of a democracy. Every term I have game development students who struggle with basic arithmetic (fractions, exponents), but somehow want to make a game.