(August 13, 2014 at 10:50 am)Napoléon Wrote:(August 13, 2014 at 10:40 am)Brian37 Wrote: It wasn't for me about "boring" . It was more about having the entire sink thrown at you at once image wise. I do not do well in situations where I am thrown in the deep end all at once. I do better with baby steps taking one part at a time.
Yeah that too I guess. I do think a lot of topics are rushed over as well simply because schools have a set curriculum they need to cover. Often you'll spend 2 weeks on one topic but then something equally as important only gets a small mention. And kids (people) in general learn at different paces. One of the things that always bugged me with maths, and why I'd always hate it was because the teacher would expect you to pick up something like simultaneous equations within 2 lessons. Most of the class probably would but I'd still be sitting there like "wtf is this shit". You're then chastised by said teacher when you don't know what you're doing. In the end you just disengage with what's going on, at least that's what it was like for me.
Yea, and society does not understand that you cannot slap the same teaching tactics on individuals.
Again, I can now look at that chart without even telling you the name of each element and still be able to calculate the number of neutrons in each.
It is so fucking simple. All atoms have 3 main parts, protons, electrons and neutrons. The only difference between the elements are the amount of those three parts. Once you understand that the math is fucking simple.
Where I got stuck was on all the fancy names and you could easily call them Frank or Barney or whatever, and all you are doing is giving a name to the different amounts of those three particles.
