...It is important for those aspiring to be engineers, or get in the construction field. It lies at the heart of calculus, trigonometry, and is a study of many theorems, and axioms known as Euclidian geometry. This subject prepares a student for Algebra through basic Math operations and rules. (read more)
...I find that the most detrimental thing to a mathematics student is lacking a core foundation. In math, everything you learn builds on top of what you learned in previous years, and without that strong foundation, students can fall behind. When teachers explain something in class they assume that the students have a certain knowledge about math based on what they learned in previous years. (read more)