If you have a problem and you are reading math textbook to learn methods to do the problem, it would be a lot easier to study textbook. The only problem is to f

If you have a problem and you are reading math textbook to learn methods to do the problem, it would be a lot easier to study textbook. The only problem is to find such a problem, so the most of the textbook would be relevant to it somehow. Or at least it should seem to be relevant long enough while you are studying. Though you could try to find several problems so they cover all the textbook. It is a funny way human mind works (or at least mine does), it needs goals. When it have goals, it starts to generate guesses how to reach goals. It tries to check these guesses, some of them it fails to check, so I start reading textbook over and over, trying find answers. I begin to see where I lack proper understanding, and I can turn this lack of understanding into questions. Lack of understanding is vague and I do not know what to do with it, I do not know where to begin, while question is something specific and I know how to search for an answer.