Originally Posted by
JKDS
The math courses you're talking about are NOT easy. Even if taught well, they are very difficult courses. Most cover problems where famous mathematicians spent their entire life attempting to solve...when others spent their entire life failing to solve it.
But math also isn't made for regurgitation. After you get past a certain point, it's no longer about inputs and outputs. It's now about seeing problems, and figuring out on your own how to use past tools to solve those problems. Part of it does involve figuring out what to do when you have no idea. (Including where to go for help, researching, etc)
That's the biggest issue I had with math. Nobody told me about this switch from regurgitation to inginuity, and it caught me majorly off guard. People talked about how difficult "vector calculus" was, but I breezed through it because it was still just regurgitation. No one told me that courses like "statistics" stopped being regurgitation and started becoming "hey, remember all that other stuff? Figure out how it can help solve this problem".