Most schools around the world teach you maths, even though vast majority of people doesn't use maths at work - not directly. So why bother ? Surely primary scho

Most schools around the world teach you maths, even though vast majority of people doesn't use maths at work - not directly. So why bother ? Surely primary school math would be enough for everyone except specialists ? While I'm skeptical of value of maths for programming, I can't deny that the process of learning and practicing maths teaches you valuable skills: discipline, thinking outside the box, logic, looking at things from different points of view, concentration, persistence, attention to detail... Now Assembly programming requires many of the same skills, AND it's close to metal. It's how computers actually work. At the end of the day, all programming languages are written in asm or can be written in asm. You can't escape physics and relationships between parts of processor. It doesn't matter if a programming language is imperative or functional, or OO, the rules are the same for all. There are high level language constructs which can represent complex things in simple ways, but if you don't know how processors and algorithms work, you're playing a lottery, not optimizing a program. Having low level knowledge pays off even if using a high level language. It's good to know what's physically possible. ---------- Side note, inspired by this post... how do I post a "ASK HN" post ? I'm not 100% sure if I do this right, the last time I left the "URL" field empty but my submission looked like a normal submission, no "ASK HN" in title etc.