I don't understand how it's possible to taste if you can't smell. Why does this happen when you get a cold, but not in situations like PK described? 
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Might be that the body's other senses are modified/intensified accordingly when one is lost. Not too sure about the science behind it, but I've heard of it happening.
I don't understand how it's possible to taste if you can't smell. Why does this happen when you get a cold, but not in situations like PK described?
It's possible she just tastes things differently. I have certainly never lost my sense of taste when I have gotten sick; foods just taste slightly wrong.
I don't understand how it's possible to taste if you can't smell. Why does this happen when you get a cold, but not in situations like PK described?
I've no idea of the science but I'd guess it's because of what causes you to lose your sense of taste and smell when you have a cold - blocked nose and sinuses. It's two separate senses, and having a bad cold makes you lose both of them.
Calculus, math so easy a child could do it yet I struggle with it.
I have always struggled with it. I never did find it easy, not at all. Where'd you get the idea that it's "so easy a child could do it"?
I used to understand it when I studied it in school, but to me it seemed like a crafty way of manipulating the fabric of space, time and Science Itself so that something could equal something else.
Eh, it's not exactly something that'll stick with you if you're not using it.
Calculus, math so easy a child could do it yet I struggle with it.
I have always struggled with it. I never did find it easy, not at all. Where'd you get the idea that it's "so easy a child could do it"?
I used to understand it when I studied it in school, but to me it seemed like a crafty way of manipulating the fabric of space, time and Science Itself so that something could equal something else.
I don't think math is that hard, it is just that poor teaching makes it hard. Math teachers tend to skip over steps or just not explain them. Math is a simple process of going A->B->C->D, but teachers tend to skip B and C. Good math teachers break it down to the base components and then with the students build the problem back up.
I know that I mentally will skip steps and I think that is what teachers do because they know how to do these problems and have a hard time looking at them from the perspective of someone who doesn't.
I have always struggled with it. I never did find it easy, not at all. Where'd you get the idea that it's "so easy a child could do it"?
I used to understand it when I studied it in school, but to me it seemed like a crafty way of manipulating the fabric of space, time and Science Itself so that something could equal something else.
I don't think math is that hard, it is just that poor teaching makes it hard. Math teachers tend to skip over steps or just not explain them. Math is a simple process of going A->B->C->D, but teachers tend to skip B and C. Good math teachers break it down to the base components and then with the students build the problem back up.
I know that I mentally will skip steps and I think that is what teachers do because they know how to do these problems and have a hard time looking at them from the perspective of someone who doesn't.
The teacher who taught me calculus taught it well, even going into its cultural significance a little, but as a teaching mentor he wasn't that great.
It isn't as simple as a good/bad teacher, because some students simply prefer some styles of teaching over others.
My A-level maths teacher was excellent for me, as he taught me in the way I prefer to learn. Not everybody in my class liked his method though. His handwriting was difficult to read at times, which made maths equations look even more intimidating, when the letters and numbers themselves look like a collection of strange swirls and sharp angles.
My A-level maths teacher was excellent for me, as he taught me in the way I prefer to learn. Not everybody in my class liked his method though. His handwriting was difficult to read at times, which made maths equations look even more intimidating, when the letters and numbers themselves look like a collection of strange swirls and sharp angles.
The sad thing is.... I used to be good at maths. It used to be my favourite subject, and I was consistently at or near the top of the class at school. I don't know why I went off it, to be honest.
Maths pretty much stops being fun once you move past doing sums.
To be honest, in today's climate, anything can be made to equal anything else, given adequate funding.
Yeah!
Ooh! A damning indictment of.....something, that's for sure!To be honest, in today's climate, anything can be made to equal anything else, given adequate funding.
Yeah!
Ooh! A damning indictment of.....something, that's for sure!To be honest, in today's climate, anything can be made to equal anything else, given adequate funding.
Math = Socialism! Burn it!!!!
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