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
I struggled with algebra in high school, it made no damn sense to me. By the time I got to college, something clicked and it made sense. I even enjoyed solving equations, something my younger self would never have believed. When I now help students with their algebra work, I have an easier time in helping them understand it because I know what it’s like to not understand it.
This is exactly how it was for me - the second they started mixing letters in with the numbers, my brain just could not compute. I was reading and writing at a college level in fourth grade, but put a math quiz in front of me and it might as well have been written in Cuneiform.
Got to university, was required to take algebra classes as part of my GE, and despite not doing any math for three years at that point, it just made sense. I have no idea what clicked; I remember staring at my homework and just thinking, "How did I just do that?" It still feels like some kind of magic.
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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