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I fail at elementary school.
Zombiemambo
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Having just played Questionaut, an education puzzle game aimed towards elementary school students, I realized how little I remember from when I was back in elementary school. Science and English grammar, in particular. So I can feel a little less stupid (just for a bit, until I forget it again), where can I brush up on this stuff?
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People seem to really enjoy the educational DS games, maybe you should give it a shot.
As for remembering things, you just have to brush up. Do a little studying in your spare time. That and try out the DS Brain Age games, and that's pretty much all I can say.
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Last time I checked, grammar isn't considered useless trivia
I'd honestly say just read more books, and pay closer attention to stuff. Next time there's some figures or a science principle in a news article or it quotes a statistic try and read up on it (wikipedia!)
Any idea who that's by?
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This was really aimed at elementary school students? I don't recall even SEEING a circuit diagram until I was in high school physics. There level 6 had me wondering what to do for a while.
I don't think a lot of high school students have a challenging time with "Humans are omnivores. What do we eat?"
I think he was talking about figuring out what to do on each level to even get to the questions. I had the same thought while doing it. The levels themselves seem more challenging than the questions.
I think you'll find that once you have kids or a young relative who asks for help on homework, it will quickly come back to you, not to mention help you retain the information.
Except some of the questions were kind of all over the place in difficulty. I've never in my life heard the terms "sliding" or "translating" in relation to math. Of course I've never taken a lot of Geometry, so I guess that figures into it.
And it also turns out that my peers, teachers and I have all been using the term "compass" incorrectly when we meant "protractor" for the last... uh, almost my whole school career. Go figure.... maybe it's a regional thing.
But yeah...
What don't plants have?
- Plants don't have roots
- Plants don't have leaves
- Plants don't have legs
...Correct! Plants don't have legs!
Boy, I felt like a real winner after that one.
Well... were you switching around the terms for compass and protractor, or calling them both compasses, or did you just never know/use a compass in class?
Compass:
Protractor:
Nevermind, I'm just an idiot. We were calling the compass by its correct name, I just forgot all about protractors entirely. I don't think I've ever actually used one.
And then I got confused and figured the pencil-stabby-spinny thing (which is also what I sometimes called the compass) was what they were talking about for measuring... degrees... and... angles... and stuff.
Sigh.