I disliked math during my official schooling, especially high school.  It was all:

If one rabbit can run one mile in one minute and two rabbits can run two miles in two minutes how many people can you fit in a telephone booth?

Answer:  I don't give a damn.

The teacher (indoctrinator) would grandly bestow upon the class a cookie-cutter recipe for problem solution.  No questioning of the method was allowed.  No background was given.  You memorized the procedure and regurgitated it on demand.  The procedure was taught as if it was Handed Down from God.  (The same pedagogical technique was used in my science classes as well.)  This is the antithesis of proper Mathematical technique and any deductive system.  

I suspect the teachers taught that way to cover their ignorance of the subject matter: most science and math teachers in the US did not major in science or math.

That's what passes for science 'education' - in my experience. And it's not, it's training.  Education, in my view, is the process of getting to understand the mathematical procedure AND the reasoning behind the procedure.