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Originally Posted by knight_shadow
"Once I finish Math 101, 102, and 103, I won't have to take math anymore" was my motivation.
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Exactly -- that is the other motivation I forgot to mention, but that I've tried with him: "Because once you finish it, you won't have to take it again. Otherwise, you'll keep taking it over and over." (Oh, and I've also tried that this is an opportunity to learn how to get jobs you dislike done, because there's always going to be some part of your job you'd rather not have to do.)
And to be clear, obviously I know there are many professions and occupations where you would need to know higher forms of math. But I think he's like me: I knew I disliked math enough that any career that required lots of it was automatically excluded from consideration. I guess what I'm looking for are examples from anyone not in a math-oriented field as to how they've used what they learned in algebra.
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