Could be as trivial as a type of food, a TV show, or something more serious.

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    Maybe your just learning from the wrong place? A lot of people who say they aren’t a “math person” often just have a shitty education.

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      Yeah, a lot of math education teaches memorization. This isnt math. If you can understand how a formula was derived, rather than just memorizing the formula, I find it a lot easier to remember. I’m not really memorizing a formula exactly, rather I understand better of how I get from what I have to what I need.

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        I agree, my highschool often just stated mathematical equations without explaining what they were. They told us you find the sidelength using sin and gave js a formula and thats it. They didn’t say what sin actually was/represented, how to calculate by hand or even show us the classic unit circle like on this website https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/unit-circle.html

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      I didn’t say I’m not a math person. It literally becomes confusing. I imagine it’s like how dislexia works. They know words. They know what words say, just putting them together doesn’t happen the same way as everyone else. I fundamentally understand the individual elements but I just can’t assemble them properly in my brain like I can with everything else. Even if I know the formula and put the numbers in the right places it’s like the processing step in my brain just…doesn’t, or won’t. Hard to explain.

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          TIL there’s a name. I suppose that would be it.

          From the Wikipedia this is spot on.

          Ability to grasp math on a conceptual level, but an inability to put those concepts into practice.