As a mathematician, I would like to point out that there are a lot of different areas of math, and higher math isn't just learning more calculus. Graph Theory

As a mathematician, I would like to point out that there are a lot of different areas of math, and higher math isn't just learning more calculus. Graph Theory and Stats, for example. I have no idea what he's talking about with including Stats in up to 8th grade math. I've taken a few university classes on it, and I still don't feel like I have enough to be confident solving all but the simplest statistical problems. There's a lot you learn in High School. Functions is a big one that comes to mind. The idea that f(x) = x^2 + 2 or something, and you can compare it to another function g(x) is pretty important, but not really covered till the end of High School. Sure, if you have studied programming too, then you know what functions are, but that's not quite a good assumption to make for the general population.