Let's Talk about Math

 Let's talk about mathematics...with apologies to Salt-N-Pepa...

---What do you think about mathematics?  

---Do you still do any math, and if so, what?  

---Does your job/career involve doing math?  

---When you went to school, what mathematics courses did you take?  

---What do you think about how they were taught?  

---How easy or hard were they?  

---How hard did you work in them?  

---Was/is mathematics interesting to you? 

---What is your favorite area in mathematics? What is your least favorite?

---What was the most "advanced" course of math that you took?

---How much of the mathematics you learned in school do you still remember?

---How much of it have you used since leaving school?

---Do you think that mathematical proficiency puffs up some people's egos while difficulty in the field deflates others?  

---Do you believe that there is absolutely no ego within mathematics itself?  

---Do you see people who bring up mathematical ideas as trying to impress others?

---Can you "speak" math, that is express concepts, equations and diagrams verbally with a fair degree of approximation?  

---If you spotted somebody out in a coffee shop studying math and the two of you struck up a conversation, would you automatically ask them what it was for?  

---Do you think people have to be studying "for" something when they study something like mathematics?  

---If people respect the etiquette of not interrupting someone when they are watching a two-hour movie, should they also respect the wish of that same person to be left alone for a half hour studying mathematics? 

---If you randomly brought up mathematics in conversation with others, would you feel awkward?  

---Do you feel awkward reading this article about mathematics? 

---Do you think this is too provocative a topic for Salt-N-Pepa to sing about?

Of course, I have opinions about all these questions and more and plan to give my own answers sometime down the line...