I recently thought a student who "always was bad at math" how to use it to make his marionette puppet servo controlled. On the way we encountered a lot of scaling ranges, working with angles, trigonometric functions for motion synthesis, all kinds of complex remappings with saturation functions, random walks, linear interpolation functions and so on.
He was absolutely stunned and asked me why mathematics wasn't thought that way all the time. Instead of a bunch of things he had to do, he came to see it as a toolbox with things you can use.
And I myself wonder why the hell my maths teachers failed at making this easier as well. I distinctly remember my math teacher wbo failed to answer me when I asked after months of solving integrals why we need those. I had to figure that out myself, pre-internet.
He was absolutely stunned and asked me why mathematics wasn't thought that way all the time. Instead of a bunch of things he had to do, he came to see it as a toolbox with things you can use.
And I myself wonder why the hell my maths teachers failed at making this easier as well. I distinctly remember my math teacher wbo failed to answer me when I asked after months of solving integrals why we need those. I had to figure that out myself, pre-internet.