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What is something that was explained to you wrong such that you could never understand it, and you received a clarifying explanation that finally made sense? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

I was very bright when I was young, but unless I was given practical application of knowledge, it just leaked out of my ear.

I was exactly the same with trigonometry, I couldn't understand it or why were even learning it.

As soon as I started to get into programming and I wanted to have a gun with a bullet that had a certain speed, and it was going at a certain angle, and I needed to break down the horizontal and vertical components of the motion, all of a sudden it felt like I had invented trigonometry myself.

I found that true of so many different things especially with math. No matter how much it was explain to me theoretically, it never made sense until I had a practical application and then it was just obvious to me.

I wish more of my education was that way instead of just learning theory.