kind of what I do when I have some maths I don't get straight away. I stare at it for abit and try a different method read my text book and try another one. Then I read the question agian and keep on going. I had a hellish night when once the answer in my text book was incorrect and I spent 8hrs checking my working
I guess I do this because I messed up some maths exams, the first I had ever messed up and decided never to do badley in a maths exam agian. But almost always things get easier as you progress like in maths to start with you have no tools and only one aproach to solving a problem then you get many more tools and angles of attac and as you use these tools they get better and before you know it you are doing all kinds of neat calculations