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Re:Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learni... by swiley on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @12:49PM (#14745716)
>I never had any problems with math until I went to university, so I was merely a passive observer of everyday struggle for some people.

This is the opposite of my experience, I did horribly in math and hated it until I took calculus (which, I guess I should have taken in highschool but I tried to avoid it since the rest of math sucked.)

EDIT: just want to clarify: I did have a reasonably intuitive understanding the whole time, the earlier stuff just felt like busy work.

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Re:Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learni... by d3ckard on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @01:08PM (#14745892)
I couldn't develop internal understanding of calculus, so while solving the equations wasn't that hard, I never felt really comfortable with it. Discrete mathematics - total opposite. Proofs were very intuitive to me.
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