I was terrible at times tables in primary school, and high school maths was a chore, even if I did get decent grades. Thankfully after a stint doing art and design, I've finally found the creative joy of maths through the wonder of type theory and computer science.
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She dismisses the importance of "conceptual understanding"; is it because she's an engineer and thinks math is just a tool for engineers? I got good at math by *only* conceptual understanding, no practice and no rote learning at all. It can't just be me.
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