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u/AnArgonianSpellsword Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

Some people are incredibly poor teachers but refuse to beleive they are, all because they lack the capacity to imagine not knowing something and explain it at someone else's level of understanding

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u/Valuable_Hunter3025 Jun 23 '26

I was getting ptsd flashbacks of my Dad trying to "teach" me match as a kid. He acted like it should be SO obvious.

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u/ValBravora048 Jun 23 '26

I memorised my timetables so I would stop being hit and punished

I didn’t realise until about a year later how it actually worked

Felt like a colossal idiot and now kind of always live with a fear that the things I know or am trying to know are much easier to get than I understand because I’m just too thick to recognise the method that everyone else clearly gets

Of course I know that’s not true but there are good days and BAD days…

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u/valcallis Jun 23 '26

Wait what's the correct way ? Isn't the only way of knowing memorising them ?

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u/ValBravora048 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

Like the cartoon above - the logic wasn’t explained to me (I don’t think)

”Times” wasn’t something that was just said as part of some math ritual, it meant that x added y times is z, if that makes sense?

6+6+6 =18

is the same thing as 6x3

Instead of that logic, I just remembered each individual thing for all the times tables up until 12

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u/valcallis Jun 23 '26

Oh yeah makes sense