Granted, your math teacher sits you down and has you do 100 worksheets of factoring work. By the end of it, you know everything about factoring, and can do any factoring problem at speeds that would astonish anyone. However, the only math you can do is what is needed to factoring. Whenever you aren't trying to factor, you can't do math. At all.
I wish to not blush so STORMING often.