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I wish I liked math, I blame the way it was taught to me. I can only really grasp a concept when I get all the "why"s and "how"s. It needs to have a practical application. But that's never how math was taught to me, it was always almost completely arbitrary. "You might need this in later classes" okay well that's not at all motivating for me, nor does it make it interesting.
Formally teaching pure mathematics is a bit beyond the abilities of most children or even highschoolers.
It's like how they don't teach inductive reasoning and proofing in statistics class, 99 percent of the people that will use it either won't understand or care.
"It needs to have a practical application"
This is what word problems are. Describing real situations mathematically and deriving more information from them.
I feel like everyone who blames the way mathematics was taught, simply wasn't paying attention at the time.
I blame untreated ADHD and human nature.