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As a kid, the row x column thing never made sense to me. I was horrible at understanding visual metaphors, I don't think I "got" the row x column thing until we
by com2kid 5y ago
As a kid, the row x column thing never made sense to me. I was horrible at understanding visual metaphors, I don't think I "got" the row x column thing until well into high school, and even then it was "I have to think about it".
I always had better luck with just manipulating the numbers mentally.
- spywaregorilla 5y agoMetaphor seems like a poor term. Mapping concepts to geometric concepts is pretty important. Multiplication is simple enough that you can just do it. But having that capability is pretty important for understanding other concepts. For example, many concepts in calculus.
- com2kid 5y agoVisual explanations of geometry, trig, and calculus made sense. But as a kid I never got the multiplication thing. Even now as an adult I understand what they are trying to do, but it isn't "obvious" to me. Then again I am one of those people who doesn't read comic books because all the pictures get in the way of the words. Heck as a kid I read illustrated books and didn't realize until I had finished the book that it even had pictures.