> However, most students are not good enough at math to learn functional programming concepts.
When does this misconception disappear?
You don't need to be good at math to use functional programming. It's nice that there is a correspondence between math and FP, but it's mostly irrelevant when coding. You could as well say you need a FP background when learning math. Both statements are nonsense and usually spread by people who mostly read complicated blogposts instead of writing actual code using FP.
FP just offers a nice bunch of intuitive and predictable ways of processing information.
Take Lisp as a perfect example, I doubt you'd find very many people who think that you need to be strong at maths to learn Lisp. I wonder if this misconception came about because of Haskell's (unfounded) reputation of being a "scary abstract maths language".
When does this misconception disappear?
You don't need to be good at math to use functional programming. It's nice that there is a correspondence between math and FP, but it's mostly irrelevant when coding. You could as well say you need a FP background when learning math. Both statements are nonsense and usually spread by people who mostly read complicated blogposts instead of writing actual code using FP.
FP just offers a nice bunch of intuitive and predictable ways of processing information.