When I began learning about algebra, I didn't understand what was so hard about it or why there were so many problems. Once you knew that "x" was the 24th letter of the alphabet, why did you need to solve for it? It would obviously always just equal 24.
I thought that algebra just meant memorizing which letter (a-z) coordinated with which number (1-26). Don't we wish life was that simple?
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- i really thought that "key" was a secret letter to the alphabet that only i knew.— amber
- In preschool, I thought that the letter N came twice in the alphabet- W X Y N ZAnon
- that the twefth letter of the alphabet was "elemeno" like: a b c d e f g h i j k elemeno p— feivel
- We didn't have a chimney in our house. Father Christmas had to come in through the letter box.— Ginnean
- When I was learning the alphabet,I thought elemeno was one word.— Rick H.
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej