I’ve always loved math. I still do. (And can’t forget spreadsheets!)
But I still remember that in high school, the entire calculus class was clueless as to why integrals were, well, integral to our lives. (I’m still not sure, to be honest.) Our teacher, Mr. Opre, told us to “talk the talk and walk the walk” until we started to really understand what we were doing.
What he meant was that we needed to go through the motions (as in, follow the mathematical steps) until it started to feel like we actually knew what we were doing, while grasping the concept along the way. Slowly but surely, his advice worked, and I was calculating integrals with enthusiasm.
