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[Helianthus]

There's an argument to be made that learning tough math is necessary to make basic math effortless.

[rdouble → Helianthus]

That wouldn't be a very good argument. Basic math gets better by doing a lot of basic math. Your trigonometry will not improve by learning topology. I had more than one math prof who could not seem to balance a checkbook.