we really do feel like people who don't like math just haven't found the sort of math that they mesh well with yet
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@Felthry we think a lot of it is kind of trauma-like?

a lot of maths education is incredibly bad - like, "your method that gets the right answer is wrong because it's not the method we were taught in class" levels of bad

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@packbat that is a good point, yes

we dealt with that a lot in one particular university class, but fortunately that was after we'd already solidified our love of math

it was still the only class we ever got worse than a B in
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@Felthry *nods*

we lucked all the way out and learned maths from pretty good textbooks as a homeschooler and then had decent professors in college

but we've heard a fair few stories from people whose experience of maths was less lucky

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