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You should really try using algebra, it's quite handy.
It's quite handy... When you have a need for it. Which I do not in my daily life.
I'm not an anti-math Luddite or something. I just don't often have a need to solve for an unknown term in a math problem in my life in the day to day.
Just because my life doesn't require it every day doesn't mean I wouldn't know when to use it.
You never budget for a grocery store trip? You never walk into a store with $10 and think about how many cokes or whatever you can buy?
Just because someone’s not handing you an algebra worksheet, doesn’t mean you aren’t doing algebra.
Price comparisons while grocery shopping would be a basic everyday use.