1. Procedural fluency vs. deep understanding
Many commenters agree that Math Academy excels at giving users the repetition needed to solve routine, exam‑style problems, but they warn that this doesn’t guarantee conceptual insight.
- “I think mathacademy is excellent for developing the skills necessary for solving the problems on mathacademy (which largely are the problems on math exams). But if your goal is understanding rather than application, then mathacademy is more similar to duolingo than it is to language immersion.” – stephen_cagle
- “The most important thing to understand about Math Academy is that it's all problems, problems over and over again, with just enough pedagogy to get you from one kind of problem to the next… I'd echo any other observation about that structure being limiting for deeper understanding.” – tptacek
- “While the ‘worked example effect’ … does seem to accelerate learning … I do not think the learning achieved by the regurgitation of another person’s ratiocination is nearly as useful or rich as learning acquired by discovery.” – maxall4
2. Skepticism about math study causing financial success
Several users dismiss the idea that the OP’s 1,000‑day math journey directly led to his investment gains, pointing out the classic correlation‑causation fallacy.
- “I am quite sure that learning math has nothing to do at all with investments doing well. Would be a classic example of having made money, but getting the reason for why wrong.” – hyperfuturism
- “Surprised they spent 1000 days on math and still don’t understand correlation is not causation.” – wanderlust123
- “Lost me when he said ‘between now and when I started Math Academy my investments have done exceptionally well, to the extent that I became financially independent in my late 30s.’ Seems like a shill for Math Academy.” – the_real_cher
3. Value of disciplined, daily practice versus reflective, varied learning
The debate centers on whether relentless daily grinding (no days off) is optimal or whether breaks, explanation, and alternative methods (tutors, discovery learning, teaching) yield better long‑term growth.
- “Also I am fairly certain that not taking a day off has hindered your progress rather than improved it. This is not a productive attitude and ritualizes the study instead of encouraging self‑reflection.” – monospacegames
- “for some of us ritualization is productive because it's what we need to stick with a difficult program.” – jbotz
- “Maybe the trick is taking the question and writing lecture notes / delivering the explanation as a teacher. Surely explaining it is much better than just solving the question and tap tap tap.” – drivebyhooting