Every third undergraduate student breaks off his studies. The culprits in this stats mess are called especially math, physics, and chemistry. However, if you had fun with the subjects at school, you can also master them at the university level - with perseverance and a bit of preparation. The question that arises is how to successfully counter the learning devils and demonstrably improve their grades?
Nobody has a problem paying the cashier in the supermarket enough money to buy, and when it comes to the right amount of baking soda for two servings of a cake, pretty much anyone can do it easily. In fact, these examples are simple arithmetical tasks that we succeed in because we have a connection to the case and the degree of abstraction is low. We can just as well follow the functions of a simple circuit in the basic physics course. However, if it goes on to the complex electrical engineering, often form large question marks over the heads in the classroom.
There are two essential words to help with this, the meaning of which is crucial: understanding relationships. Chemistry is quite interesting, but you cannot do anything with math? Then here is already the first sticking point. It certainly does not make a physics engineer bother with mathematical formulas. The chemistry forms a complex field. Therefore, the basics should be adopted early on, so that later can build successfully on it.
Nobody has a problem paying the cashier in the supermarket enough money to buy, and when it comes to the right amount of baking soda for two servings of a cake, pretty much anyone can do it easily. In fact, these examples are simple arithmetical tasks that we succeed in because we have a connection to the case and the degree of abstraction is low. We can just as well follow the functions of a simple circuit in the basic physics course. However, if it goes on to the complex electrical engineering, often form large question marks over the heads in the classroom.
There are two essential words to help with this, the meaning of which is crucial: understanding relationships. Chemistry is quite interesting, but you cannot do anything with math? Then here is already the first sticking point. It certainly does not make a physics engineer bother with mathematical formulas. The chemistry forms a complex field. Therefore, the basics should be adopted early on, so that later can build successfully on it.