I think that, to most people, “math” brings to mind “the skills taught in math classes, which are used by people such as engineers and actuaries in their job, and by ordinary people when adding up grocery bills” much more than it does “what professional mathematicians do when they invent and prove new theorems”...
Would you agree with Scott if he said “I am bad at math classes”?
Sure.
I think that, to most people, “math” brings to mind “the skills taught in math classes, which are used by people such as engineers and actuaries in their job, and by ordinary people when adding up grocery bills” much more than it does “what professional mathematicians do when they invent and prove new theorems”...
(Do you mind if I play Socrates for a while?)
If Scott said “I am bad at the kind of math used by engineers”, would you agree with him?
Do you think you could teach Scott to be better at math classes?
I heard that as “I am bad at math classes)”.