It may be more objective but it's not wholly different than how other subjects are taught. You're still memorizing a bunch of different facts (how to graph, how

It may be more objective but it's not wholly different than how other subjects are taught. You're still memorizing a bunch of different facts (how to graph, how to change base of a logarithm, etc.). It's not like high school algebra actually gets into the underlying mathematics of the operations and why they happen to work specifically as they do on real numbers.