What skill did you learn in math class in High School that you actually genuinely use in your work?
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Mary Mary quite contrary
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As an applied mathematician and consultant who spent his career answering problems posed by engineers, scientists, statisticians, computer programmers, etc., I would claim that all of the skills I learned are still in use. I might argue that the foremost skill one might take from a high school education (besides the fundamental, basic skills of algebra, etc.) is the skill of learning to turn a sometimes poorly formulated problem in words into a mathematical statement. Once you have a formal mathematical statement of the problem, the answer will often be just around the corner. Don't get me wrong, the ability to manipulate algebraic expressions is valuable in any scientific or engineering career, as well as financial careers that you may encounter. Even managers will need to work with numbers, budgets and spreadsheets. But even the ability to spin virtual gold from a spreadsheet is worthless without the ability to formulate the problem you need to solve in the first place.
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