Why do we do math in school?
When I asked this question as a kid, my teachers always told me, “You’ll use it one day.”
That’s almost always false.
Most adults are never going to be in a sticky situation with two binomials, thinking, thank goodness I can FOIL my way out of this mess. Most of us get by just fine without ever solving for x again.
And especially in an AI age, fewer and fewer people will “use math” in the narrow, practical sense.
But the origins of math have never been primarily about utility.
Math is formative. It trains the mind to love what is true, to recognize what is orderly, and to be drawn toward what is beautiful. It teaches us that the universe is not chaos, but something intelligible, something structured, something that can be known.
And you can see that truth made visible in the world’s most breathtaking churches and cathedrals: arches, vaults, domes, proportions, symmetry, harmony, light—geometry turned into glory. The mathematics that shapes a cathedral is not cold or sterile. It’s the language of wonder, carved into stone.
We don’t teach math because everyone will use it.
We teach math because it forms the kind of person who can see that reality has meaning.
@DIDhatchery@maddenifico This why it’s wrong 😂 @joerogan isn’t right wing. That’s why the left loses. Bc they don’t recognize that these folks are only interested in conversations - which the left used to TOUT themselves on. You know, “dialogue”. But the left has abandoned that. Which is why Trump one
I wanted 2give @ryandaytime the benefit of the doubt, But I was one of the first to wave the #FireRyanDay flag EARLY ON! He’s a great Asst, but is NOT a Head Coach! Step down @ryandaytime
U woke up on 3rd base & thought U hit a triple to get there! U can’t win the big games!
@ButtsoupBill Haha. Yeah, misinformation, misleading, and very relevant on the part of MSM. The biases are such that many cant even see it, or worse, excuse it. 🤷🏻♂️
10 Shocking Stories the Media Buried Today
#10 - Joe Rogan ERUPTS on The New York Times for “fack-checking” RFK Jr. on toxic food ingredients while simultaneously proving him right.
“That made my brain hurt just reading it.”
The “fact-check” in question all started when The New York Times claimed RFK Jr. was “wrong” about differences in Froot Loops’ ingredients between Canada and the United States.
However, their own reporting admitted that the U.S. version contains harmful chemicals like Red Dye 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), while the Canadian version uses “natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots.”
“So they’re literally saying he was wrong, but he was right,” Rogan scoffed. “That is the f—king dangerous chemicals banned in Canada that we’re trying to get rid of in America!”
Rogan continued to question what possible motivation the The New York Times could have to “fact-check” RFK Jr.’s efforts to remove toxic ingredients from the food supply.
“Like, what are you trying to do? Are you trying to remove all leftover credibility? Are you trying to k*ll it all?” Rogan asked. “Are you secretly working for the Chinese? Like, what are you doing?”
Rogan’s guest, Jimmy Corsetti, concluded, “It’s probably backed by Monsanto or something.”
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@EricRSammons It’s funny when folks try to impose these things. Guess what? If it wasn’t agreed on in the Unia, then sorry 😜😂😎
Thanks for standing up for us, Eric!
@ButtsoupBill You are young my brother, growing up, Trump was touted by everyone as a good dude, the figures I mentioned before. Incl. The Clinton’s, everyone.
You are just spouting the mainstream media lines. Nothing original or specific.
The last 4 years have been terrible 4 USA. No more!
Dana White on Donald Trump,
“The narrative that has been flipped on Donald Trump is one of the craziest things I have ever seen…From 20 years of experience, Donald Trump is a good person. I would never back a guy who is a racist….or wanted to start WW3”
@ButtsoupBill BUT WHY WAS TRUMP SO BELOVED BY TALKING HEADS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY, until he ran for president? You don’t think that i’s suspect at all?
@ButtsoupBill U sound like a person who has a lot of contempt prior to investigation. I’m under no delusion Trump is a Saint. I’m far from believing he is as awful as MSM has says tho.
U talk about kids & controversy? I searched your timeline & U didn’t have that for Ol’ Hunter.
@ButtsoupBill I’m questioning your intelligence. He spoke to personal experience, the witness of his family, the fact that he is not racist (which the media loves to say he is, in spite of the fact that he was lauded by Jesse Jackson and Oprah prior)