My partner is quite talented at math and she greatly resents all the time and money she spent in supposed “science” classes essentially taking worthless math IQ tests rather than learning anything useful.

Why, exactly, do we teach this way? We pretend as if it has to be, but it does not — obviously.

It serves almost no student well and the world even more poorly to make math the absolute focus of so much of even science education.

Math should be a tool you take off the shelf when you need it, just like any other, not the end goal of STEM scholarship.

My pet theory is that a lot of STEM types simply couldn’t handle anything else but goofing around with musty equations, but that might be just me being petty.