What specifically do you not like about it. And I don’t just mean “it’s too hard”, what specifically is hard?

I feel like most people would like mathematics, but the education system failed them, teaching in a way that’s not enjoyable.

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
    57·
    2 days ago

    Someone who used to dislike it in school and university here.

    Having to cram a lot of information and formulas, and then reproduce it without error for an exam. None of it made sense, and I wasn’t even aware it was possible for it to make sense.

    Only after many years did I understand it’s all connected, there’s a logic to it. It’s possible to understand rather than just blindly learn.

    Btw the notation really doesn’t help.

    • confuser@lemmy.zip
      3·
      1 day ago

      I think the issue is that mathematical logical thinking is what needs to be taught, like that everything can be described as equations.

      The teachers put too much emphasis on formulas and notation and equations and so we are led to believe that math is only about rote memory of math grammar and so it never makes sense.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      23·
      2 days ago

      I think this is true for lots of people. I also think there’s a bunch of us that have never had that feeling of it being a memorisation task.

      In fact, the reason I liked maths and science was because it wasn’t memorisation. Unlike languages (for example) you could always work out the bit you forgot, and didn’t need to depend on some made-up aide-memoire that only applied 75% of the time and remember what 25% it didn’t apply to.

      All I can think is that some early teacher failed you, and didn’t lay out how the foundations worked.

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
        121·
        2 days ago

        if the foundations of mathematics are dependent on a single early teacher… that’s a serious dependency for mathematics then.