i had the gun to my head then i saw this pop up and now i live a successful and fulfilling life <| sep |> i went through algebra from the 4 th grade until 9 th grade WTF my teacher would get pissed about me not showing notes so they forced me into AP sophomore literally brought a pillow to class Aced it junior trig was normal senior calc my teacher didn ' t know integrals so the valedictorian I had to teach it SAD ! all went to waste no honors diploma because I elected to be a chemlab aid which doesn ' t get school credit whereas an office aid pushes paper , makes announcements does . With this NWOwar I highly suspect there ' s some intentionally placed stupidity in our schools . took calculus based physics at university and the math of physics finally seemed easy . allowed me to actually understand physics . Honestly , everyone knows calculus almost inherently . Not the mathematical equations , but the reality of it . Anytime you drive you go to pass a moving car your brain is performing calculus intercepting a point in space on a moving target . that ' s what ' s so beautiful about calculus it ' s paradoxically simple complex in my opinion of course