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In my experience, getting good at math requires first that you accept that your intuitions suck. Your natural intuition will constantly lead you astray mathemat

In my experience, getting good at math requires first that you accept that your intuitions suck. Your natural intuition will constantly lead you astray mathematically. People who struggle with algebra are often people who are trusting their intuitions about what is correct. Eventually, you internalize the rules and they become your intuition. But to suggest that we should skip the rules and instead try to build up intuition seems rather wrong-headed to me.

jsprogrammer 11y ago
>But to suggest that we should skip the rules and instead try to build up intuition seems rather wrong-headed to me. The problem with natural languages, and especially english, is that there aren't really any formal rules as there are in well-defined maths like algebras. If there are no rules, how can you skip them?