Math as taught in US high schools has very little to do with anything of real value.  It&#x27;s basically an SAT prep program, to push people through to calculus.<p>I could very nearly count on a railway brakeman&#x27;s fingers the number of times that high school math has been an asset in my software career.  The three years of computer programming electives I took were wildly more useful - and actually taught me geometry...