I feel like half the planet seems to have a noticeable hard limit to their brain and it angers them to be taught anything beyond 3rd grade math.

all the scientists, engineers, and mathematicians who make our modern standard of living possible and use parallelograms every day to calculate vectors also had to go to the same schools

The people who paid attention in math class are not having trouble with their taxes

These kinds of posts are so irritating.

Are people incapable of teaching themselves these things? We live in an age of unparalleled information access. Whining about something you weren't taught in school, which you probably would not have paid attention to at the time anyway, does not solve the problem, nor does it help anyone, least of all the OOP. GAH.

Yeah you bitched about learning compound interest, too. But now you have a mortgage.

And every time you put together a piece of IKEA furniture you're using your parallelogram skills.

Math is important.

It's always a good day for parallelograms. They're not so fickle as the seasons or tax laws.