One thing I noticed going through school is that math concepts are usually taught first before physics and other subjects —- precisely because the math is viewe

One thing I noticed going through school is that math concepts are usually taught first before physics and other subjects —- precisely because the math is viewed as a prerequisite for the other material. But this always seemed entirely backward to me, because much of the math was invented for and motivated by people trying to solve actual problems in these other disciplines. I think we should teach people in the same order of operations, rather than treating math as an abstraction to be learned by itself.