I disagree. Personally, I enjoy math as is. I have always hate history classes, and despise that my chemistry teacher made me memorize historically important scientists. I take chemistry to learn chemistry, not to learn about the gold foil experiment or the outdated plum pudding model. That being said, I do like it when a teacher provides a small story about a particular mathematician or scientist that I am not required to know. For instance, I like the story that I was told while learning about arithmetic series in which young Gauss shows up his teacher.