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I was reminded today of the kind of learner I used to be.
Back in grade twelve I dropped algebra, because I didn't get trigonometry, and physics, because I didn't get grade twelve algebra (despite getting B+s in grade 11). Fifteen years later I picked up a university algebra primer and found I could not only get all the math, I could even derive formulae. What happened?
I had long suspected a change in my brain. How else could I have gone from clueless to clued in without a whiff of algebra for fifteen years? At seventeen, I wasn't ready for trigonometry. At thirty-two I was.
Posted by Mark Penny |
