why do harder concepts (ie calculus, physics) get harder to understand/process for the brain?
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This isn’t based on hard fact, but I don’t know that they *are* harder. Basic ideas like momentum and force are pretty intuitive if you teach them right, and even calculus has people arguing its fundamentals are really intuitive and we should teach it super early in math education. I think high-level stuff can be harder to process because it involves more complicated math that’s very abstract.
Learning a dozen rules for how to do certain equations doesn’t make any sense to your monkey brain. But learning how forces act on objects (physics) or how position/velocity/acceleration are fundamentally related (calculus) is easy to understand in physical, real-world terms.
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