Tec4Teachers- Is higher math really needed??

The way the speaker is thinking you could say his ideas are revolutionary because it will take a act of revolution to make it come true honestly.  The public education system will never be perfect but to me taking math out of higher education will not help if anything it would make our students lazy thinkers. What people don't understand is that its not the fact that math is needed in life its how math makes us think that is important.  Math teaches us how to dig deeper into our brains and actually work them.  Just like you workout to keep in shape you must also keep your brain tuned and health and math helps out with that a lot.  Now brain games would help that but for school a class that is nothing but games would not fix the problem or help anymore than a math class does right now.  I don't think math needs to be taken out of the school system, if anything it needs teachers that are willing to take that extra mile with that student who is afraid of math or is already defeated when they walk through the door.  When it comes to math I feel math teachers have to be strong for their students because of the fear and stress that is related to the class.  Putting brain games in your class here and there would be ways to combat that stress, or to find ways that those games incorporate the lesson you are trying to teach.  But in the end math is needed whether we like it or not it'll be there tomorrow and many years to come.