drkalmenius

I agree with this completely. I'm English and don't really understand how it all works on your side of the pond, but I never really got into maths until late Year 6 and then high school. Throughout primary school I was constantly struggling (for a high ability student) because I struggled with basic mental maths. Then, in year 6 I had a great maths teacher who started teaching us things like nth term sequences (we did loads) and more algebraic maths, but instead of just giving us things to do with them at the level we needed, he gave us hours to work out complex problems. E.g. We spent a week working out an Alevel (Year 12/13) maths nth term problem. This helped and I did the level 6 test and got a L6!

In high school this continued and I realised I loved algebra. I now really love algebra, and proofs are my new found love (i taught myself induction, which is Alevel Further maths content over here). My current maths teacher is great and my whole set work at such a high level, as we're pushed just to try and work out problems in our own way with what we know. I'm in Year 10 and working towards a grade 9 (the new better-than-an-A* grade for our GCSE's, only given to the top 4% of grade 8 students in the country)

I hope to do Maths, further maths, physics and computer science Alevel and then go and do a CS degree either in Cambridge or MIT.

Sorry I babbled, it's just people like you have so much impact and can flip your perspective!

That sucks. If you have to completely dehumanise someone to get them to fight for you, maybe your fight isn't worth it

But on land. With feet not flippers

Turn YouTube subs on? I know they're not great but it might help.