<p>^^ reminds me so much about my D and a couple of kids I tried to help out with math. They loved to plug values into the formula of the day and say, “Is that right?” I recall trying to get them interested in why something is b squared minus 4ac etc. or why the derivative of uv is such and such, or come up with a couple of strategies for calculating pi, etc. and completely struck out.<br>
DS, fortunately, I kept him going a full four months while he was trying to figure out a general formula on integer solutions to a squared + b squared = c squared and had several partial solutions before he accidentally blundered into a book that spilled out the answer, much to our disappointment. I don’t think any of his classmates or his middle school math teacher cared much about his discoveries though.</p>