<p>I’m as concerned as anybody else about the state of K-12 math education in this country, but I don’t think this is a particularly good metric. If our future artists, chefs, PR executives, etc. don’t understand logarithmic functions, it’s fine with me. We need the educated citizenry to be numerate and understand probability, logic, and statistics, without which they can’t analyze claims made in countless other fields. Beyond that, math doesn’t play a role for most of us. I’m glad I passed pre-calc and calc because they were challenging and gave me intellectual confidence, but did I need to? Eh, I don’t see it.</p>