Twenty-five years later, the author's recall of long-forgotten high-school math saves the day and allows him to turn a parallelogram into a rectangular field for kids soccer.
I am thankful that teachers got a special day of recognition on Tuesday, May 3, which is National Teacher Day. But I do admit that as a student I didn’t always see the value in what we were studying, especially in high school, when the prevailing thought was that we already knew everything, or at least everything that was truly important in life. That certainly was the case in anything to do with algebra and geometry.