Reasons for kids to do math: (1) It's a chaotic world out there that kids have to learn about. From math: In some respects it's possible to get rid of the ch

Reasons for kids to do math: (1) It's a chaotic world out there that kids have to learn about. From math: In some respects it's possible to get rid of the chaos and separate junk from reliable truth. (2) Later in life, in career or just social contexts, it can help a lot, have the person at a big advantage, really be the best, for the person to be nicely ahead in some field or even just some small part of some field, maybe math, physics, chemistry, statistics, computers, publicity, .... Soooo, don't get to dominate always or everywhere but can help life a lot if just eventually happen to stumble on a situation where "nicely ahead" permits domination, e.g., maybe head of a new group, stock, starting a company, impressing a few influential people. Don't have to dominate all the time, but maybe get to be a founder of PayPal, program "Hot or Not", etc.