Ruins about the point you made earlier. The reason why schools do that is because your understanding of hard to grasp concepts like for instance Factorising Quadratics - is reflected for both you and employers to see. And of course for if you want to get a carrier in the field of maths but for those that don't it's a good way of testing you're overall intelligence. Same applies to almost everything not just maths.
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B) Mental math is partially important because you need to figure out what 20% of a bill is to tip the waitress am i right :P And I think they teach us these things to try to get us to become higher jobs like a scientist where most of the skills we learned could be used.
That's called college I'm pretty sure, grade school is like a "prep". Also confidence is self built and helped through socializing which you learn through school in general.
I've had it ok thanks. I go back to school the day following tomorrow because tomorrow is staff training day. Things been working for you? Also I haven't seen Eddy in a while have you?
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