I don't know this was how I was taught. Mind numbingly boring rote style in 1-6, them a mix of stuff like reading problems and assignments along with practice a

I don't know this was how I was taught. Mind numbingly boring rote style in 1-6, them a mix of stuff like reading problems and assignments along with practice assignments, by high school it was fairly even mix of progressively harder problems mixed with "reading problems" and projects (geometry, trig, calculus, diffeq)