School made us hate Math, here’s how to change that.

What led me to write this article is the fact that schools have made Mathematics a subject we just need to pass. They encourage us to chase marks by practicing the questions the teacher solved in class rather than letting us discover the real spirit and joy of problem-solving by working through the questions ourselves first.

Unfortunately, some teachers fail to teach the basics properly, while others pamper their students too much, solving each question for them.

Teachers have the power to make a subject enjoyable or discouraging for their students. The one who uses it rightly brings up wonderful students.

When I got that teacher, it changed the way I study math.

I always worked with math the way my teachers told me. Stay focused in class, grasp the topic, understand the teacher’s method for solving the question, then copy it, practice at home, and try to solve similar questions.

Following this, I consistently scored impressive marks in math. This made my classmates think that I was a math genius.

But I never was.

All I was good at was following instructions and practicing. I would attend the class attentively and attempt to solve the homework by myself first. If it was similar to what the teacher had solved in class, I would get it on my first try. But if it had anything new, any tricks, or required any additional thinking, that’s where I would get stuck and refuse to try again after failing. I would run to my sister, who would...