True, but I'm not sure it matters. This is 3rd grade math. tesseract (an apt name) already posted a link to Lockhart's Lament, and I tend to agree with that, but I also think that before you can really get into the "beauty" of math you need to have a firm, memorized command of basic addition and multiplication, because it is not possible to see the beauty of math if you are looking at a beautiful equation for Newtonian motion and have not got "multiplication by one half" so firmly internalized that you don't even feel yourself trying to remember what it means.