> I've been shouting from the rooftops for years that math[0] courses need more context.
A slightly different perspective: It used to be common for professors to teach a lot of history in graduate algebra courses. (Generation X and older.) I've talked to students from a few other schools who experienced this. None of us cared for it at the time. My teacher spent at least two class periods writing down the history on the board. We were all quite bored. But then again, we were in math grad school, so there was no need to try to motivate us.
A slightly different perspective: It used to be common for professors to teach a lot of history in graduate algebra courses. (Generation X and older.) I've talked to students from a few other schools who experienced this. None of us cared for it at the time. My teacher spent at least two class periods writing down the history on the board. We were all quite bored. But then again, we were in math grad school, so there was no need to try to motivate us.