math.stackexchange has so many good mathematicians, were you all good at maths since school? [closed]

soft-question education

Solution 1:

Without knowing more about your background and your teachers and the curriculum that you've been subjected to, it's hard to say much in specific. However, I highly recommend that you read (at least the first dozen pages of) Paul Lockhart's essay: A Mathematician's Lament.

Enjoying mathematics is key, and the world is awash with misconceptions about what that is. Creativity and an appetite for solving problems is probably more important than having excellent memorization and procedural skills; the latter skills are, unfortunately, often mistaken for being "good" at math.

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