I didn't use any math beyond basic algebra in jobs like cost accountant and executive assistant. I haven't worked outside the home since my son was born and now as a homeschool mom, I am now relearning the algebra that I have had many years to forget. I noticed some things several things on IXL that I don't remember ever learning and I know I never used.

My husband is a manager and works for a university. He says he has only used basic algebra skills in the jobs he has had and was not taught some of the skills that are on IXL's algebra. He says he never needed them.

I have not had a chance to talk to my sister who took every math class she could get in high school and is a highly paid manager working for the federal government. I doubt that she uses all of the algebra she learned.

I am guessing my relatives who were engineers used a lot of algebra, but the rest of us would have been just fine with just the very easy basics.

My son knows he probably won't use some of what he is learning but he is willing to learn as much as he can so that he will do well on the ACT-- if we can get accommodations for his dysgraphia. If not, he will try to learn enough to pass the algebra CLEP test at some point.