Mathematics has a lot of knowledge points that do connect to the "real world" very deeply, but perhaps the nature of their linkage to other mathematical pieces of knowledge is best left to the mathematicians. But we can still use the pearls of wisdom that come out of the process.

Very true, I feel like the sense that Computing is easy comes from the inherent closeness of our lives experiences to it. Everyone uses a Phone they see ram understand memory, can understand process and processing.

That is one clever metaphor. Thank you, I might steal it.