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Hmmm, I haven't taken the poll properly yet, but... Aelia, maybe it's the way you would better learn things to have the way a formula is derived explained to you, but personally, I don't care. What would have worked better for me would be for my teacher to show how this stuff was useful in real life, by showing for instance how a problem in trigonometry may help with calculating a flight plan for a pilot (ie, what angle would you have to fly to get to such-and-such airport if the winds are blowing from the northeast at such-and-such elevation, and calculate your airspeed given those winds, and if you leave at 2:00 p.m. what time would you arrive ---- and by the way, if you would like to get your pilot's license, even just for fun, that's the kind of thing you have to do, as well as calculating weights in the plane of luggage and passengers so the plane is properly balanced), or perhaps calculus is useful for architecture (though I doubt it) or engineering (more likely)... and so forth. I also hated maths, and though I got very good grades, I never truly understood what I was doing or why, I just got good at applying formulas. The logistics went over my head, and without any compelling, interesting reason to study it, I had no interest in truly understanding how the various types of math worked.
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