@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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@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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