PLN 7

I read a post by James Holman called Math In Life, and it was about what math students should be taught in school and if there going to use anything that they're teaching us. What mattered to me was being prepared for when we are adults and what kind of math we need to know, and that we might just forget all the other stuff we learned that we won't use when we're adults. In part of the post he said:

Should we focus more math on applications like home mortgages, credit card interest, taxes and other things that you might not learn in school?

I think leaning some of that would actually help prepare us more for the future because that's mostly what we are going to be doing that's related with math. I can connect to this because in fifth grade we learned how to write checks and do deposits and stuff to prepare us for Ameritown. Witch was a place we went to and ran our own little town with places like the store and the news office and everyone got a job, even being the mayor. But I totally forgot about how to do all that stuff, so maybe schools should put some of those subjects into their curriculum. This relates to my English class because some of the stuff in there we will use like proper writing format and so on. This relates to the world around me because my parents say they don't use most of what they learned in school now in days. I sometimes ask myself the question "When am I ever gonna use this when I'm an adult?" but usually the teacher has one reason or another.