RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff
03-01-2013, 02:00 AM
Giving people a baseline education in physics and chemistry concepts early on would probably be a good thing; you don't need to understand the underlying equations to know some of the general rules and concepts, and more people knowing them early on could help prevent the widespread continuation of a lot of misconceptions about the world.
That said, for a mathematical examination, the early physics seems to be the best to teach early on. Everything's built off calculus, but basic mechanics and electricity can be worked with adequately just by knowing some equations.
Also, we could move to speed up math learning; from my memory, grades 2-7 were just review after review to drill in arthmetic, when I would think there'd be room to bring algebra and other things in early. Algebra isn't even really harder than arithmetic; it just doesn't have so much time spent on it in primary school.
That said, for a mathematical examination, the early physics seems to be the best to teach early on. Everything's built off calculus, but basic mechanics and electricity can be worked with adequately just by knowing some equations.
Also, we could move to speed up math learning; from my memory, grades 2-7 were just review after review to drill in arthmetic, when I would think there'd be room to bring algebra and other things in early. Algebra isn't even really harder than arithmetic; it just doesn't have so much time spent on it in primary school.