> Math fosters critical thinking

I kinda agree, but I also kinda disagree.

My question would be if "math" is the right tool for that. It can achieve that as a side-effect, but how we express it and talk about it is full of legacy cruft, cargo-culting and general bullshit that makes it not exactly snap into place for all kinds of brain wirings.

Math I believe is not an end in itself. Maybe with that perspective, solutions that satisfy our needs there can be found