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I remember that in elementary school a lot of the early math education was especially focused on speed. The same quizzes were basically given to us repeatedly until our speed improved for the entire year. Later on, they intended for this to serve as a sort of placement test for math. I was pretty much always the slowest one, because I would get more stressed when a time limit was given (something around 2 minutes for 60 questions) and I didn't approach it as memorization like many of the other students did. My teachers were convinced that I was unable to learn math because my speeds at answering those questions were not improving as much as those of other students and most of the time I was not able to finish the quizzes. But as soon as my parents requested for the school to give me a normal test they found that none of those problems even existed for me. Afterwards, they ended up moving me to a class that was a lot less focused on just doing the work quickly and that put me ahead of where many of my peers were. I think that if everybody else had been taught in an environment like that were time was not a factor in your grade they would have a much better understanding of the concepts of math and would also find it easier to learn how to do the actual math than how to memorize the answers to repetitive problems.