Math Textbooks Be Like

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Math Textbooks Be Like

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Math textbooks are the ultimate bait-and-switch artists! They're like "Hey there, regular human! This book is TOTALLY for non-math people!" Then BAM! 100 pages later you're drowning in a symbolic alphabet soup where even the Greek letters are having an existential crisis!

It's like being promised a gentle stroll through a garden and ending up scaling Mount Everest with nothing but flip-flops and a candy bar. Those symbols aren't even speaking English anymore—they've formed their own secret society with handshakes only mathematicians understand!

And don't get me started on those "therefore" arrows that multiply faster than rabbits. My brain cells are waving little white flags in surrender! 🧠⚰️

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