My son took a Math for liberal Arts course at Community College after being experimented on all through K-12. It was the best math course he had ever taken. Focused on personal finance math (hello compound interest!), probability and statistics and logic. Amazing prof too.
— BlueOctopus (@BlueOctopus75) August 19, 2025
I’ve taken a similar course. It was great!
In that class I learned Excel skills (and I was already decent with Excel) that I use in the business world to this day. People notice and call me an “Excel guru.” Not really, but the class taught me more about Excel in four months than I’d learned in two decades of using it prior. It also did a good job of covering various types of elections and how they work mathematically, compound interest, probability, some logic, and statistics. It was not nearly as basic as I thought it’d be when I signed up for it, partially because it attempted to teach an extremely wide range of topics to a fairly deep beginner level.
The course was infinitely superior to any math course I had in high school and actually connected the sterile math to the real world. I will never be a math guru and have absolutely no interest in that, but if any of my math instruction in high school or middle school had been like that course, I would’ve done far better.
Alas, I will never understand the quadratic equation, though.