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Your career path may not require much day to day math and your future boss may not frantically rush into your office and say "Quick, what's the Pythagorean Theorem!". However, the math you are learning today is more than the sum of its parts. Math trains and disciplines the mind. Just as the point of reading books is not to memorize vocabulary words, the point of math is not to memorize formulas. Math helps you learn to identify and analyze patterns, develop logic and critical thinking, see relationships, and solve real-world problems.

...Practice, Practice, Practice