I use plastic also....just saying what seems to be a waste in a way to learn all those various types of math that most will never learn or if they do will seldom ever use unless it`s job related.
I agree with you based on personal experience. I've rarely found reason to employ advanced math in my daily adult life. For people going into a profession which is heavily math dependent, it is great. Both my son and my daughter have excellent math skills. For my son, this has proved to be beneficial in both his career and earlier in his studies in computer sciences, particularly when he was in college developing programs using C, C++, Javascript and Python, etc.
I played around with Javascript and flash when studying web design using a Adobe's Dreamweaver. These programs have become more and more sophisticated and practically all the work for you.