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I enjoyed maths in high school because when I finally overcame that initial comprehension in solving it, it felt like I was solving problems based on present fo

• nodata 15y ago
  Isn't that the problem though? To get good at maths at that level, you just apply a bunch of memorised formulas or methods. It's not about discovery and finding your own approaches to solving a problem, it's about applying formulas and tricks.
  • Joakal 15y ago
    You're talking about discovery education [0]. Understandably it is applications of a bunch of memorised formulas or methods but this also occurs in specialist roles in the industry (statistics, science, stock analysts and more). For example applying web language to a need although not as pure a solution as mathematics. [0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Discovery_learning https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Discovery_lea...
  • jedbrown 15y ago
    Sounds like you had poor teachers. Mathematics should always be about problem formulation and understanding which methods are appropriate and how they fit together. Memorizing formulas is not mathematics at any level. Here is a very good, albeit rather long, piece on the subject. ftp://math.stanford.edu/pub/papers/milgram/milgram-msri.pdf