There's a real point here -- not every thing we note will ever have value to us again.
OTOH, I taught high school math briefly, and this reminds me of the evergreen question "When are we ever going to use this?" And the honest answer that most students in the classroom will never use more than a tiny portion of the anything they're taught beyond basic algebra (maybe not even that).
And yet it's worth doing sometimes because at any given point in life, you don't know exactly what you're going to be or do later. You want to do what is more likely to open doors than close doors later.
Even if you learn your HS math well, you probably won't get by on that skill specifically. You'll either train on deeper specifics that HS math gatekept... and/or you'll probably forget enough of it that you'd have to come back and brush up and then get into specific applications.
But you'll remember there was such a thing as this kind of problem solving and have some idea of what it entailed and where to find out more.
OTOH, I taught high school math briefly, and this reminds me of the evergreen question "When are we ever going to use this?" And the honest answer that most students in the classroom will never use more than a tiny portion of the anything they're taught beyond basic algebra (maybe not even that).
And yet it's worth doing sometimes because at any given point in life, you don't know exactly what you're going to be or do later. You want to do what is more likely to open doors than close doors later.
Even if you learn your HS math well, you probably won't get by on that skill specifically. You'll either train on deeper specifics that HS math gatekept... and/or you'll probably forget enough of it that you'd have to come back and brush up and then get into specific applications.
But you'll remember there was such a thing as this kind of problem solving and have some idea of what it entailed and where to find out more.
Kindof like a bookmark.