Why do we have to learn algebra and how do people use it in our daily life?
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I would offer that the answer to the first part of your question has very little to do with the second.
We learn algebra because it holds a universally understood level of difficulty. There’s no wiggle room for interpretation – you either understand algebra and can use its fundamentals to solve problems or you cannot. The point of education isn’t necessarily to give you the tools to use every day, but to teach you how to learn.
By learning algebra, you’re demonstrating that you’re able to learn things *as difficult* as algebra. It’s less about taking the quadratic formula and finding ways to use it in your daily life and more about demonstrating that you’re able to master subjects as difficult as those found in algebra.
If you want to be an engineer, an accountant, or any number of other professions, you might have to become comfortable with concepts that are as difficult or more difficult than the concepts found in algebra. By passing algebra, you’ve made a notch in a measuring stick that lets others understand your capacity to learn new things. You once didn’t know any algebra. You had to learn it. That’s demonstrative of your capacity to understand complex ideas.
**TL;DR: It’s not about using algebra in your daily life, but algebra’s known level of difficulty is useful as you learn how to learn.**
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