Genius Kaya, genius!

If Patrick was a student, he can help tutor Kaya in math.

I kinda understand Kaya here. She understands those physics stuff well because they have something to do with things she likes and finds fun such as throwing a ball and causing collateral damage because of her draconian super strength like how Math and English were my favorite subjects back in school because I always liked to play with numbers and I learned a lot of the English language by playing lots of video games that weren't available in Brazilian Portuguese.

Smarts varied in subjects of calculation I suppose. 8I

Okay, what grade are the twins again? XD
I’m asking because, at my high school, physics was the science class seniors took. IIRC, there was a general science class freshmen took, then sophomores took chemistry, juniors took biology, and seniors took physics. And even as seniors, we usually ignored air resistance!

They're in 9th grade. I'm basing myself on my own experience in school, and I started having physics, mechanics, electricity, chemistry in 8th or 9th grade as well. And 4 hours of math. I hated math xD

... Wait, four hours of math per day? Or per week?
And I'll add that mechanics and electricity were also covered under physics.

4 hours a week. We had all of those subjects separately, 2 hours a week. A typical week would be something like

4 hours math
2 hours physics
4 hours mechanics
4 hours electricity
2 hours pneumatics/hydraulics
2 hours chemistry
2 hours electronics
8 hours of practical lessons in mechanics and electricity
and some other stuff I can't think of right now. All this combined would be a LOOOOOT of math, but only 4 hours were pure math.

Dang, I wish my classes had looked anything like that!

(hint as to how long ago that was, the school got their very first computers the year after I graduated ...)

Interesting! We'd have an English class, focused on writing or reading or something, a history class, a foreign language class, and an art class in there too.

As with all things Kaya, it works best when she can directly apply it to moments of excitement and chaos.

She needs to know physics so she can launch herself at others, and not break them on impact.

Sounds like she just needs a mental framework for maths as relatable as the one she has for physics. Thinking in graph paper is an excellent start for the number line, the unit circle, etc.

ok math and physics are so well interconnected how can she know the theories behind physics and not get math?

that's like someone who's very athletic and eats very well and knows how to maintain their body but not get biology

Kaya just knows the concepts but doesn't know the process. It's understandable. She might have trouble with the higher levels of physic courses where they put more emphasis on the formulas for the tests, but still know the theory fine.

the world may never know

Bit of a savant, I see

Her art score must be through the roof!

Okay. I've gotta ask. The 9.81 m/s(squared), is that 9.81 meters per second squared? I've never understood the "per second squared" and I'm scientifically minded.

Err, yes? It's pronounced meters per second squared, and the square is in the denominator, or seconds. Velocity is distance/time, can be read as change in distance over time. Acceleration is the chance in velocity over time, or V/time. Breaking into componant parts, it becomes (distance/time)/time. Another way of writing it, (distance/time)*(1/time). This equals distance/(time^2). Substitue you favorite appropriate units, Feet, Miles, Meters, Furlongs, Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Weeks, Fortnights, and so on.

Kinda like taking the concepts and turning into math with words.

I guess what's got me confused is the "per second squared". I understand the distance traveled, it's the time squared that has me confused.

It comes from being a derived unit. The time squared is simply the mathematically simplest form of (distance per time) per time.

Okay. Let's see if I understand this (remember, you're talking to a 68 y.o. man), if a rock falls from a cliff and travels 50 feet in 2 seconds, its velocity is 50 feet in 4 seconds? Somehow that doesn't make sense to my feeble brain. (Of course, it didn't make sense when I was 18 either.)

Not quite. 50 feet in 2 seconds, as a velocity, is 50ft/2s or 25ft/s. The acceleration is the change in velocity over time.
Now, let's say that the rock falling off a cliff speeds up to that 25ft/s velocity after, say, 5 seconds. That means that (25ft/1s)/5s. Is mathematically the same as:
(25ft/1s)*(1/5s) which is
(25ft*1)/(1s*5s)
When dealing with units, they kinda get treated as variables. So 1s*5s becomes 5(s^2) so that gives us
25ft/(5s^2) which is 5ft/(s^2) read as 5 feet per second squared.

I really wish I could write it down instead of typing single-line calculator syntax. It would make so much more sense and you could see what's changing in the equations.

It's too bad that I was turned down when I asked to take physics in High School. Maybe I could have grasped the concept of velocity if I had.

For things dropping/falling I cheated. Since in feet it was 16 times time squared I just multiplied the time by four and squared that. Much easier (for me anyway) to make quick/dirty calculations that way.

I get that. I've always had trouble with math, but I was a rock star in algebra.

Maybe Kaya only struggles when she can't relate math to the real world.

Sounds like that 'ghetto math' I saw somewhere where they had to figure the cutting/selling of a drug to make enough to pay everyone off and still afford to party ...

"I CAN'T DO MATH!!!"
*proceeds to do math*