Hello! After reading the Jamm'n peaches blog, I agree that our society has become much less mathematically savvy as the days have increased. I agree that it is very silly to see a set of three quarters in a basketball game and find it useless to count street addresses by what seem to be completely random values. I believe there is a main cause to all of this.
As I understand it, most people now have a smartphone, laptop, ipad, or computer at their disposal nearly every minute of the day. As time has continued on, a need for understanding simple mathematics has quickly decreased. Our brains seem to turn to goo and we decide that it is much easier to use a calculator to do all of our work for us instead of exercising our brains. Also, I feel like most people just go along with what others tell them. There is no need to give any effort to thinking about what they might actually be saying, such as thinking about 3 quarters for a full game. So, most people just go with everything due to their laziness.this just seems to be the logical reason as to why our mathematical incorporation into everyday life has steadily decreased.
Due to our laziness, there seems to be no end to our increasing loss of intelligence .