This is also where I had issues advancing in math. For so long I was able to build intuition around mathematical concepts easily. They fit in my head and made sense. I couldn’t understand why my peers were so bad and slow at picking up the concepts. Until my first calculus class where there was absolutely no focus on the intuition or practical utility. It was just formulas for the sake of formulas as exposed by our teacher.

It wasn’t until I was curious enough to learn about calculus outside of the classroom that I was exposed to things which helped develop that intuition and made the calculations something other than just symbols and equations to memorize.