I agree that knowing and understanding the fundamental math is important, but I think proof based texts are not a good way to learn math. A lot of people get tu

I agree that knowing and understanding the fundamental math is important, but I think proof based texts are not a good way to learn math. A lot of people get turned off from math because of how it is taught. Personally I learn best by doing problems and seeing examples. Proofs are useful, but I want to know why the theorem is important before I learn how to prove it is true.