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Skills in math are skill in seeing patterns and operating abstractions. Those are very very valuable skills, no matter what are you doing.


This is true, but when you look at geometric proofs all you are doing in HS geometry is deductive logic using an abstraction which is a general approximation of the real world. That's why I could see getting rid of HS geometry and just having a deductive logic class too, perhaps with a unit of Euclidean Geometry included in it.

Algebra and calculus are different though. They are tools for finding unknown information and thinking about changing values.




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