From the article: "I was trying to memorize equations..."
That's doing it wrong. I agree with you that math education is probably broken. I imagine that math is very boring if memorizing equations is what you are doing.
That's doing it wrong. I agree with you that math education is probably broken. I imagine that math is very boring if memorizing equations is what you are doing.
It turns out you can write tests to check for memorizing tricks though. Given a certain mathematical pattern, a certain trick solves it. That is how I remember the GRE as being. I found it a truly atrocious metric.