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When I was ten, I was accelerating myself quite a bit in physics. There wasn't a physics camp at that time. So probably I also misunderstood quite some things b
by mo_42 3y ago
When I was ten, I was accelerating myself quite a bit in physics. There wasn't a physics camp at that time. So probably I also misunderstood quite some things but I also was ahead of most peers (I was ten). I think physics is even more approachable to children because they can play around physical things.
Well, it got me into some trouble. I basically destroyed my teacher's plan of early physics education. Basically, the teacher wanted to replay physics history a bit by explaining the early experiments and what people thought about them.
> How fast should you accelerate your kid in math?
My answer would still be: as fast as your kid wishes for but consider social implications with teachers and peers.
Sidenote: after this experience with the teacher, I somehow switched to computers. Exploring computers and learning to program wasn't a subject in school so this was free territory.
- timthorn 3y ago> I basically destroyed my teacher's plan of early physics education. Basically, the teacher wanted to replay physics history a bit by explaining the early experiments and what people thought about them. What did you do to destroy the teacher's plan? It doesn't sound incompatible with you having advanced knowledge.
- mo_42 3y agoI remember we were doing something experiments with electricity and the teacher asked some question. I just answered that it’s a stream of negatively charged particles. The concept of electrons or charged particles wasn’t introduced yet. So this didn’t make sense to students who learned according to the teacher's plan. I think he wanted us to develop an idea of charge ourselves instead of learning from a book. (I think this is an outdated way of teaching because students have so much other resources on the internet to learn from.)