When did it become so important
For every child to do complex fractions?

Most adults I know whip out their phone
For addition and subtraction

What if those adults had that time back
Not just the time learning basic math

But the time spend learning everything
Then don’t use – or even half

I wonder at what they would have done
I bet stuff adults would call “lazy”

Swinging for a whole day eating string cheese
Playing the same video game for a week

The adults would say it was a horrible waste
The other adults would agree

Then they’d pull out their phone calculator to add up
All that valuable time gone to waste

They’ll never know what they’d have gained from
their time, and neither will their children get a taste