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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@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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@Felthry a lot of people hear "math" and think "arithmetic"
I think a lot of that is to do with how math is taught (at least, how it was in my experience, which admittedly might not be universal) - as a system of largely arbitrary rules that need to be memorized so you can manipulate symbols and simplify equations and answer questions. That does math a huge disservice - there is real beauty to it that equations don't really capture. It's like someone climbed a cliff and saw an incredible vista at the top, came home to write down a detailed description, and then future generations had to memorize the description verbatim without ever being asked to imagine the original scenery.
@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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