Comment Math = philosophy (Score 1) 1010
Yes, math creates a difficulty for students of all ages and backgrounds. That includes the engineers, computer scientists, and physicists of the world. It is not as if we have had a free pass at mathematics because of the way our brain is wired. While it may have been simpler, I do not know anyone for whom calculus came easily at first. We all were forced to think, and to think hard, to come up with some reasoning for higher mathematics that makes sense to us.
The whole point of studying mathematics beyond the basic principles is to exercise that part of our minds that must stretch to grasp a concept that is not present in day to day activities.This is why our first mathematicians were not mathematicians at all.
They were Philolosophers.