It really is. I mean math is hard at the higher levels for sure, but it truly is taught extremely poorly. Most of it is just pattern recognition which is a primitive analogue to algorithmic comparative analysis of patterns. For a long time I used to try and take those cognitive iq tests where it is a bunch of shapes an you are supposed to predict the outcome and I had to throw them away. Until one day I recognized a simple visual pattern (they were rotating the patting in x / y / z coordinates) and all of a sudden I could solve most of them. If I had an obsessive compulsive disorder I would have spent my whole life chasing these patterns and gone into math/ I'm not suggesting I am smart, quite the opposite. I am suggesting that the average iq white person could easily get into math if they were shown these patterns (and they had interest in the subject to begin with). Agreed.