This is the problem with maths, its tedious with little reward for your efforts unless youre working on Hawking type next-level shizzle; in language terms those are all basically the same question worded differently. I cant stand maths without a purpose to it which is probably why I am amazed I ended up with a B at GCSE in the end. I couldnt hack A-level maths.
I was exactly the same, maths without a point to it always annoyed me. Then I took A-Level physics and all of those techniques made perfect sense and I suddenly understood concepts Id previously found difficult to grasp because I actually had a reason to use them.