If you sleep through European history, you can still learn American history. If you sleep through biology, you can still learn chemistry.
If you sleep through algebra, you can't do calculus, period.
If you sleep through algebra, you can't do calculus, period.
Despite my best efforts in high school
that's why anyone can just sit in a history or physics graduate level course and be fine because they don't build on each other.
Organic chemistry would never depend on bio or chem 1.
however, if you sleep through algebra 1, its not used at all in geometry so its fine. And neither are used in discrete math.
such a bubble..
what if i told you most students don't learn anything past algebra anyway?
Different fields differ in how much they are built on mental models and how much they’re just a grab bag of connected facts you have to know and learn. Biology has more disconnected you just need to know it stuff than Chemistry.