re: What was the highest level of math you completed in your schooling?

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Back in the day I tutored for freshman chemistry and physics and found that while most people could "solve for x" if they started with an equation, they had never learned how to translate a word problem into an equation and so they never learned how useful basic algebra can be to real life. Let alone statistical analysis.

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Its funny you say this, because in my time tutoring younger kids in math I've noticed the same thing. This is especially true among foreign-born children ironically. Kids are smart as a whip when it comes to everything else, but ask them to take a sentence in english and formulate a basic algebraic expression really stumped them.