[gosub100]

I think most college math depts have "applied math" majors. I like both sides of math, but I found it incredibly frustrating when I would try to study just the equations for that chapter, only to be tested on a word problem. The whole "trying to trick you" conspiracy turned me off to college in general. If I'm trying to teach someone how to do something, I would show them "A, then, B, and you get C" , then assign a variety of homework of that form, and on the test, say "A, then B, then _____" and they would be correct if they concluded C. But for some reason this method isn't used much in university. If I wanted to teach a student how to start with C and deconstruct into A, B , thats what I would have taught them!