[author here] Hi - it's a biggish topic here because of the popular depiction in social media / legacy media. For instance: - Twitter search for "kid bad at

[author here] Hi - it's a biggish topic here because of the popular depiction in social media / legacy media. For instance: - Twitter search for "kid bad at math": https://twitter.com/search?q=kid%20bad%20at%20math%20lang%3Aen&src=typed_query&f=live https://twitter.com/search?q=kid%20bad%20at%20math%20lang%3A... - Reddit search for "kid bad at math": https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=kid%20bad%20at%20math https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=kid%20bad%20at%20math - TV Trope for "Everybody hates mathematics: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EverybodyHatesMathematics https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EverybodyHatesMa... - US State level curriculum guidelines: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED535222.pdf https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED535222.pdf As for it's not matched for other topics is because it's not a necessary topic for high school. Generally a US high school math student will see: - Algebra 1 - Geometry - Algebra 2 - Trigonometry - Pre-Calculus - Calculus (maybe, for a select few) So there's lots of places for someone to trip up. For general science leading into physics / biology / chemistry, etc - these are more upper level / final courses, so there aren't as many places where someone could trip up. // My (very hazy) understanding of the UK is that you have GCSEs and A Levels. So some people opt-out of some of the above classes way before they meet them whereas in the states, more people have to see them. (For instance, in NYC to __graduate__ a student would need 6 credits in math, including: At least 2 credits in advanced math (for example, Geometry or Algebra II).