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| adjl 08/17/22 10:50:21 AM #16: | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] Why shouldn't people who did well in school be able to criticize school curricula? Judgmenl posted... Everything after that I could never wrap my head around. Algebra was the last math course I did well in. Anything calculus based just never resonated with me. My personal impression (though I don't know how it pans out empirically) is that people generally have a certain point after which math stops coming easily to them and they have to start really working to be good at it. For me, that came in second-year calculus: Up until then, I was excellent at math and never had any difficulty, but in that course I actually started to have trouble wrapping my head around concepts and had to actually study/practice to keep up, at which point I stopped taking any more math because I had no expectations that anything further would be useful enough to work for it (not that anything from the previous 4-5 years was particularly useful either). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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