The sad thing is that the cool stuff isn&#x27;t even always complex.  It&#x27;s little things, like going through how the quadratic formula is derived instead of just telling someone to learn it by rote.  Explaining differentiation with a bit of the logic behind it instead of just teaching rules.<p>But at the same time - I know I&#x27;d have&#x2F;did enjoy that stuff but maybe 60% of my classes would have played up if a whole lesson was spent deriving and exploring concepts without rote learning.<p>Being a maths teacher has to be pretty rough, especially given the number of students who are openly hostile to it as a subject.<p>As an aside, I often think about my Religious Studies teacher who&#x27;d disparage topics like Maths as being irrelevant after school.  We&#x27;d never use them she said.  RS was vital to life success, Maths a pointless exercise.  <i>It still winds me up to remember</i>.