[remarkEon]

>Anybody can learn math.

I'm actually surprised that sentiments like this still exist. We work in technology, we've had enough contact with enough people to know that there is a difference between motivation to learn a hard technical field and the aptitude to actually do that field. "Anybody can learn basic addition" is mostly true. "Anybody can learn linear algebra" is not.

[badosu]

Well, I don't believe that's a fair conclusion based just on the fact we observe most people are "innumerate" and "hate maths".

Most people also never had the fortune of having someone describe why resolving quadratic equations is meaningful or how it developed.

An example of a somewhat dense but very approachable topic with good motivation is this book: https://web.osu.cz/~Zusmanovich/teach/books/visual-group-the...

You could say that not every adult, 2 deviations from the IQ median for the sake of rigor (we lose 2.5% of the population under), capable of reading might be able to follow it, and I would accept the argument. At the same time almost every adult was also indoctrinated in such a way they "hate maths", even though their only experience is dealing with numbers, operations and memorizing formulas that might eventually be useful.

I'm not sure this translates well, but the best allegory I could make to illustrate my point is "the fish does not think about the water".