Roughly what level of maths are we talking about here? I'm interested because I am a maths student at university but I have also tutored lower ability kids/teenagers a bit and my sister wrote her phd thesis on maths education psychology.
It's kind of vague, but the tip I have is not to be afraid of visualising concepts in a different way to other people. Take the time to find a way that makes sense to you (maybe different from how your teacher showed you). It is more important to see in your head WHY something works than to be super quick at applying some method you have memorised.
I have never been amazing at remembering formulae etc and I was the last person in my class to learn my times tables, but I enjoy coming up with my own ideas (and justifying them), and this is what's most important for maths at a higher level.
applied mathematics is your friend. Most maths can be related to physical real world problems. Most of these problems can be visualised in some way. Need to learn vectors? Navigation on a map. Calculus? The acceleration of cars etc. You want to study algebra? Look into geometry. Addition as motion on the number line, multiplication gives areas and volumes. Finding square roots is literally a problem of intersecting a line and parabola.
applied mathematics is your friend. Most maths can be related to physical real world problems. Most of these problems can be visualised in some way. Need to learn vectors? Navigation on a map. Calculus? The acceleration of cars etc. You want to study algebra? Look into geometry. Addition as motion on the number line, multiplication gives areas and volumes. Finding square roots is literally a problem of intersecting a line and parabola.
