Resonates with me. Throughout high school math was easy for me because I memorized a few formulas and passed tests. Then I went to a magnet high school. The fi

Resonates with me. Throughout high school math was easy for me because I memorized a few formulas and passed tests. Then I went to a magnet high school. The first day of mathematics, the teacher gave us a bizarre geometry problem with almost no givens at all. She told us that all could be derived from the Euclidean axioms. The next day, only one person in a class of 30 solved the problem.