#then again maybe i just had a really bad algebra teacher lol ive been told by math friends of mine

[july-19th-club]

Seeing you break the numbers down to their constituent parts and put them back together gives the impression that you're a very analytical person, and I love it

see i feel like it's the exact opposite haha i dont feel very analytical im just REAL visual. abstraction confuses me i have to have it all laid out in blocks like a little kid

#i was great at geometry but algebra made me want to tear my head off #because geometry is shapes and you can look at them #algebra was a lot of memorization and trying to make myself understand concepts that were just Told To Me #but didnt have any sort of immediate practical component to make them make sense #then again maybe i just had a really bad algebra teacher lol ive been told by math friends of mine #that it's all about the teacher. and most of mine seemed to not be very into letting us figure stuff out in like #whatever way made sense to us as opposed to the way we were told to do it because it was The Right Way #absolutely hated the show your work portions of tests. because i never did it the way i was told to . i could get the answer #but only if i ignored the instructions and broke it down into tiny components first and then built it back up