Which Highschool Math did you appreciate the most now that you're an adult?

Honestly I think required math skills and the higher math should be split in two. Math to be used for a life time should be required every year. The higher math should be electives. I work in a world of financial products for upper bracket financial customers. They may know the higher math so well they are scientists, professors, writers of novels etc., but money? Not so much. Call the math class Math For Life and integrate it with economics and social studies. Supply a bunch of monopoly money. Everyone who walks into class every day gets five bucks just to walk in the door. If you're sick it doesn't matter, you don't get the five bucks. Every test you get a "B" on you get five bucks. Get an "A", you get 10 bucks. Have the students keep track of their earnings like a checkbook. One day discuss how people made their income to become independent, raised families and gave back to the community. Another day discuss how the wealthy became wealthy. Another day discuss how lottery winners lost their millions and why they did that.I have tons of ideas how to prepare our kids for the future but, that's never taught in school. I like the thought of being a teacher but the restrictions and requirements have turned many of them into robots.

I have always liked Maths when I was in school, probably partly due to it being quite an easy subject to grasp (just have to know how to apply the formula etc), and partly due to my dad being a Maths teacher and teaching me topics ahead of time so that I could keep ahead of my friends in school! I would say I appreciate Algebra and Statistics the most among all the high school math topics, now that I'm working as a pharmacist. Algebra helps when deciding/calculating the dose of solutions/syrups to administer to patients based on the strength of the solution/syrup, or when deciding how much water to add to a solution to dilute it to the desired strength. On the other hand, statistics sometimes help to determine the validity and trustworthiness of health and medical journal articles that I read. It just seems kind of weird that when I was in high school, I never thought that Maths could one play such a huge role in the eventual career path that I chose to take......

I'm just glad I learned math, even basic arithmetic :) Like you said, math is used in any of our undertakings in life although some may probably has not realized it. But when I was in high school, I love business math. Back then, I had already decided that after college I'll go into business, and as such, I took that subject far more seriously than my other subjects :) Good luck to your new teaching job. Math's a great subject to teach. Well, that's what my mom and my two siblings always say since all of them teach math :)

I appreciateed Accounting actually.. Everything I learned in Pre Cal was forgotten within one month of completing the course. Accounting is something you remember more though, and it's more relevant. It helps you understand businesses and how they run. I found it interesting and really easy once I got the hang of it.

From my view point, the most used high school math for me at the moment is algebra, business math and statistics (from what you have mentioned). I really appreciate algebra since it is quite simple and useful. You can always substitute X for in life. But I guess a good thing to learn is business math. I think you are referring to simple and compounded interest calculations here. This topic will help students to get a grasp of financial literacy for their future. But what I really liked is calculus. you can analyze a great deal of data using simple calculus. Also, because calculus was dreaded in my college days so having learned the basics at high school really helped me.

This is a really tough question because I ended up taking some high level math in college to receive my engineering degree. I think that mastering algebra really helped me in daily life, from calculating percentages to solving equations in my engineering courses.

Because I never attended High School (not even one day) I never received and introduction to Math. I learned my times tables and how to divide, etc, but that was it 4 me. I entered College at age 16, and although I found it very difficult I managed a passing grade.

Just basic math and algebra have been the most useful to me in my career. Just the knowledge of being able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide has proven very useful in doing a lot of work necessities. It helps out when you have to do taxes, pay bills, and etc.

I just glad I can learn math. In fact I'm very good at math. One of my favorite subject and I always excel in it. My favorite math is anything that have these x and y. Those made math very interesting to learn.