You don't perform "addition, multiplication, addition, and subtraction of rational expressions" in your every-day life? You don't "Identify key features of and

You don't perform "addition, multiplication, addition, and subtraction of rational expressions" in your every-day life? You don't "Identify key features of and sketch graphs" when e.g. planning an expensive purchase or reading the news? No business owner is going to survive if they don't understand how to solve a system of equations (aka figure out feasible pricing before losing all their money). Although we are on a tech VC's news site, so I stand corrected ;-) Being an informed citizen capable of taking care of yourself does require most of the things taught in middle/high school algebra. (Which are the same exact things taught in CC algebra.) A surprising amount of financial suffering is self-imposed by people who can't or won't do very basic math.