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This essay by Dr. Robert H. Lewis does an excellent job of answering this common question. If you don't feel like reading it, here's a spoiler: "Mathematics is not about answers, it's about processes". He goes on to give several useful analogies and describes the sort of mathematical education I (and probably everyone else) received in grade/high school (despite that, I still enjoyed and excelled in the study thereof).

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