I can use algebra to solve complicated stuff as long as I understand it. But I can’t follow when other people do algebra. My chemistry teacher would just write equations on the board and show us where to plug in the numbers and not teach any actual chemistry. I would always mess up somehow even though it should be simple but if I understood the concepts I could probably make up the equations myself.
I don’t like algebra because it is tedious. Assigning letters to concepts kind of makes you distracted from the actual concept. Science is so cool and to condense it into a few equations just seems wrong. However I think math is really amazing too in its own way. I definitely prefer math over science but in high school science is more critical thinking while math is just following the same procedure over and over.