The Mathematics Plague

The Mathematics Plague By Elton Camp It’s a fact of modern life we must face Mathematics holds an important place Arithmetic, basic algebra, geometry too All are important skills for me and you Of the people, only a tiny percent require Advanced algebra, trig, calculus or higher An educational development to abhor Is to require all to take more and more So much of it is of virtually no worth To ninety-nine percent of folks on earth Quadratic equations I’ve never had to solve Nothing ever have those inequities involved So far, I’ve gotten along in life just fine Without using tangent, secant or cosine Nor has it, even once, been of value to know How fast, to overtake a car, I’d have to go But we are making school increasingly tough By continuing to teach our kids such stuff It’s high time somebody cried out, “Enough!” And childhood slavery to higher math rebuff