I took a fair amount of advanced math and I find it useful regularly. Despite that, I agree with your sentiment that most people honestly don't need much of it.

I took a fair amount of advanced math and I find it useful regularly. Despite that, I agree with your sentiment that most people honestly don't need much of it. But, I don't think that's what everyone is talking about with poor math scores. Just last week I had two college educated adults telling me adamantly that 10 * 700 was 70,000.