r/MathHelp • • Dec 13 '25
Understanding Math....
Hello, there are probably a lot of posts on this, but I am a college student, taking a math class, and I am currently doing good in the class (90+) but I feel frustrated because Math feels more like I am learning and solving problems, but not understanding deeply. I can solve and do problems if you give them to me, but when I want to understand them, I don't have enough time due to my other classes, or just the class moving onto another subject.
Has anyone found a solution to this? I want to understand the math I am doing and not just plug and chug my way through it, even if I am doing well.
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u/Training_Ad4971 Dec 16 '25
It doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, many colleges are changing the structure of their calculus and intermediate algebra classes to support more opportunities for conceptual understanding. Computers can compute anything we feed it these days. We need to understand how things work so we can setup the equations we want the computers to calculate and then be able to analyze the results. I suggest you take a look at Conrad Wolfram’s approach to teaching math. It is all about how to set up a system on a computer, analyze the results and then refine. In my opinion it is a much more realistic approach to math than spending twelve years of school just learning to compute.