Giving STEM majors a head start is helpful, and a lot of those things aren't primarily mathematical. I'm not sure what math you need to read bills in the age o

Giving STEM majors a head start is helpful, and a lot of those things aren't primarily mathematical. I'm not sure what math you need to read bills in the age of specialty apps. I can't remember the last time I needed to do any arithmetic without my phone. Estimating how much food to buy for 2 people requires understanding nutrition science, whether all your guests ate at all today, how much space you have to store leftovers, etc. The only math I can think of is jus t multiplying by number of guests, But then you might have kids or people with dietary restrictions and now half your planning is just individual person by person stuff. Math won't really help you plan a budget either unless you know all the finance specific stuff, or enough fairly advanced general math that it's just all obvious to you. There's way too much estimation of real world stuff and most of the controllable expenses(for an average poor person) are impulse fast food orders and such that they already know are costing a ton. I'm not sure trust an MBA to teach... anything about economics. They are way too high on their positive mindset business optimism attitude to really understand that the cost of getting Starbucks actually is important. A lot of the "Useful real life math" is stuff that people won't use anyway, either because an app does it, or because retirement is later and doordash is right now. Is math actually the most effective tool to make someone want to stop that?