What's ironic is that when you get to sliiiightly higher levels of math, juuuuust beyond basic algebra, you actually do get more than one possible answer. Things where X can be positive or negative 2. Once you get into trigonometry, the graphs are in fact a display of all possible solutions for an equation.
The "complex, competing, or multiple answers" are out there in math. But if you throw them at kids who haven't mastered basic arithematic, much less quadratic equations, they're going to have an even harder time with math and come to hate it.
Ironically, it's those kinds of math with multiple, complex answers that most will not use in the real world unless they go into very specific fields. If you want real world math, you tend to want "one right answer" varieties. In most real world applications you are dealing with real, rational numbers.
What's ironic is that when you get to sliiiightly higher levels of math, juuuuust beyond basic algebra, you actually do get more than one possible answer. Things where X can be positive or negative 2. Once you get into trigonometry, the graphs are in fact a display of all possible solutions for an equation.
The "complex, competing, or multiple answers" are out there in math. But if you throw them at kids who haven't mastered basic arithematic, much less quadratic equations, they're going to have an even harder time with math and come to hate it.
Ironically, it's those kinds of math with multiple, complex answers that most will not use in the real world unless they go into very specific fields. If you want real world math, you tend to want "one right answer" varieties. In most real world applications you are dealing with real, rational numbers.