Hey — did learning math in school ever feel like *memorizing* things to you?

I never felt like I was memorizing things in a math class — yet *memorizing* seems to have been the experience of many people I talk to. Let's explore this.

— this exotic dialectic (@extruded_mind) August 31, 2020

I memorized entire books to be able to (barely) pass high school math, and thus high school itself. Memorization was all there was. Nothing was ever related to anything real or that we’d ever use anywhere, even potentially.

None of what this person suggests would work for me either, unfortunately. I have no absolutely no visual sense, every math problem as far as I can tell has nothing to do with any other, and I also cannot solve logic puzzles (have never solved even one successfully, ever, in my entire life).