Absolutely. Like, for the average school kid learning about vector multiplication or dot products of things of this kind are so abstract and seem kinda pointles

Absolutely. Like, for the average school kid learning about vector multiplication or dot products of things of this kind are so abstract and seem kinda pointless. But the way he taught it, we had a problem in terms of making things look real. And the math was motivated as a strategy to solving those issues. Based on the real world problem, it was great to develop intuition for the results.