Why won’t anyone teach me math?
Unfortunately it seems like no one has been willing to teach the author what mathematics <i>is</i>. Attempting to learn mathematics as some sort of pattern matching, which is where having large sets of questions <i>and answers</i> to study is useful, does not work; it isn&#x27;t mathematics.<p>Now it&#x27;s possible I&#x27;m misunderstanding the problem here: I am assuming that during lessons students have been given answers to problems worked in class, so that they can see <i>what an answer looks like</i>, which is probably one of the most important parts in learning introductory mathematics. Indeed, learning to validate one&#x27;s own answers is not only the most important lesson in this stage of learning mathematics; it&#x27;s also the <i>only</i> way to actually <i>learn</i> mathematics as it&#x27;s the only way actual math gets done.<p>(ETA:) So I guess what I&#x27;m saying is that the author is <i>right</i> that no one has taught her mathematics, but as a symptom of this she doesn&#x27;t even understand what form actually learning mathematics would take.