I wonder if how you were educated influences your ability to visualize things?
Probably, but the first steps of teaching math involved very much the use of visualisation, as it was taught with “3 apples and now we have 2 more” or for multiplication “3 rows of 5 apples”. But I’m maybe not a good example. Because I have aphantasia also with reading. I don’t have a picture in my mind while reading a description of a person or a location and others very much have one.
Is just teaching kids to memorize it by rote just kind of normal for most kids?
For this absolutely basic stuff? Yes. Or at least they try. No idea how good it is in general, but for me it worked as intended. I’m not a friend of learning by heart for many things, but these small mental calculations that happen a lot in my line of work, I’m glad to be able to do them without needing some mental process and can just put the answer down quickly and even if I’m stressed.
Probably, but the first steps of teaching math involved very much the use of visualisation, as it was taught with “3 apples and now we have 2 more” or for multiplication “3 rows of 5 apples”. But I’m maybe not a good example. Because I have aphantasia also with reading. I don’t have a picture in my mind while reading a description of a person or a location and others very much have one.
For this absolutely basic stuff? Yes. Or at least they try. No idea how good it is in general, but for me it worked as intended. I’m not a friend of learning by heart for many things, but these small mental calculations that happen a lot in my line of work, I’m glad to be able to do them without needing some mental process and can just put the answer down quickly and even if I’m stressed.