I'm not sure what to say about this.
I came to math very late, due to poor school/environment perhaps, but later I took to it like a fish to water. At a jr college I stuffed my schedule with math classes, took everything available, and rarely missed a question on an exam. I really did enjoy working problems and became a math tutor and also graded exams for a favorite professor. Grading was quite a lot of time consuming, meticulous work, which I wouldn't claim to enjoy. I would comb over students' homework and exams and point out errors, docking points for each problem (I really wasn't paid enough for the hours I put in, but I had standards for my work..)
All I can think of, is if you really like math like I did, you could really excel in the environment today..
Also, it is important to know when you made a mistake, but that is enough. You'd learn more figuring out where you went wrong on your own. Which is why I believe you can teach yourself mathematics given a clear introduction to the concepts, a runway of problems to work, and a way to self check your answers.
Setting the curve was its own reward.
I came to math very late, due to poor school/environment perhaps, but later I took to it like a fish to water. At a jr college I stuffed my schedule with math classes, took everything available, and rarely missed a question on an exam. I really did enjoy working problems and became a math tutor and also graded exams for a favorite professor. Grading was quite a lot of time consuming, meticulous work, which I wouldn't claim to enjoy. I would comb over students' homework and exams and point out errors, docking points for each problem (I really wasn't paid enough for the hours I put in, but I had standards for my work..)
All I can think of, is if you really like math like I did, you could really excel in the environment today..
Also, it is important to know when you made a mistake, but that is enough. You'd learn more figuring out where you went wrong on your own. Which is why I believe you can teach yourself mathematics given a clear introduction to the concepts, a runway of problems to work, and a way to self check your answers.
Setting the curve was its own reward.