Commi-Ninja wrote:That is precisely what I love about math: no gray area.
Don't get me wrong, I love English and History more than math (and am currently working on a major in History), but I definitely appreciate the simplicity that math provides answer-wise.
I understand your sentiment. Personally, I thrive on that gray area. I love nothing more than telling a professor on the first day that I intend to do absolutely none of the homework or practice exercises and that I don't intend to start a project until the day it's due and then turn in something they can't help but give an A. That's what's always been compelling to me in school--succeeding despite always doing it my way and deciding to do something that is uniquely mine and mine alone. I know I'm almost entirely alone there, but shaking things up is what I live for. I love to challenge perceptions and do something that people will remember; the actual "school" part of it is kind of a byproduct, which I know sounds mental, but I'm already a little mental, so~!
Conan324 wrote:Mathematics isn't literally always about doing exactly what someone else did but usually is because, for the most part, there is an efficient means to solving a problem and then there are roundabout ways of doing so but both rely on knowledge ascertained from repetitive exercises in the discipline in question. In fact, most of the time there's more than one method to solving a problem but the answer is still usually just going to be one single answer that the teacher is looking for and discussing that answer is rarely very compelling or interesting to those without an inherent investment in mathematics.
I edited your post here to better reflect what I feel constitutes math in a classroom setting and why I do not find it interesting. It doesn't mean you have to agree, such why I said "I" so many times in my post. In fact, if you re-read, I specifically said:
Jd- wrote:I know there are plenty of people that adore math and can't live without it and I'm sure have a multitude of reasons as to why they enjoy it, but it's really just not for me.
I'll stick with the humanities.
