What If the Real Problem... Is Math Itself?As a substitute teacher, homeschooling parent, and unapologetic cultural critic, Theo Rhising takes a blowtorch to the sacred cow of compulsory math-revealing how this outdated rite of passage crushes curiosity, squanders youth, and props up a system more concerned with compliance than critical thinking.

Why are teens still forced through years of abstract math they'll never use-trig, calculus, polynomials-while graduating clueless about taxes, budgeting, or building a life that actually works? Why is math treated as sacred when, for most, it's irrelevant? And who really benefits from keeping it that way?

The Math Problem