This “war on math” only affects public schools, and among public school kids, only whose parents don’t have the knowledge or money to seek outside courses.
So it really makes the math education even less equitable than before. Complete opposite of their stated goal.
These people need to go to jail for ruining a whole generation of kids with less means. Shameful!
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sf-algebra-18380914.php
When I went to high school in the 70’s kids were doing trig and logs by the 9th grade. Algebra was 7th grade stuff. Later would come differential calculus, then integral calculus. The brainiacs in “A” lane math, which I doubt even exists anymore, were doing those Lagranians that blew my mind before they graduated.
Don’t even know what that is. 
I Had to take pre-algebra 2x and pre-calc 3x…
Luckily don’t need much math to do well in real estate 
You don’t want to.
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I aced all kinds of maths, still not a millionaire at age of 40s. Where you are matters.
Not only in real estate. Most professions only need basic maths taught in elementary schools. Definitely no need for algebra and calculus.
I’m lucky to be America.
I know but I still consider this my real estate forum so I said RE.
I was in financial services in my previous life and I can barely do basic math!
Life’s good. 
Math teaches reasoning and problem solving skills. Useful even if the math itself isn’t used.
Also useful to determine if someone (or government entity) is trying to hoodwink you. You just have a better understanding of how the world works. Lots of primary education is like that. Who uses their geography or their history?
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Are you implying these skills are learned via algebra and calculus onwards? Not learned from basic maths?
Not to the same extent.
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Anecdotally from bloggers here, such skills can’t be taught 
I realize some people who have taken fairly advanced maths have poor understanding of basic maths.
Lagrangian is mostly taught as a recipe for constrained optimization without explaining why it works. It can be taught in a lesson or two after multivariable differentiation.
Geometry teaches a more valuable skill than algebra and all the other high school math classes. Geometry demands students to write down their reasoning. In that sense it’s the only “real” math class in high school. Students actually need to prove things.
There are some simple mental models I learned in math that I regularly use in everyday life. For example in math there is this proof technique that pushes some quantities to extremes, look at their behavior there and later say at non-extreme situations behavior is qualitatively similar. I sometimes use the same technique to reason about non math stuff.
Math?