Every student knows the feeling: you did learn something… and then weeks later it’s gone. Parents see it too - a child who understood fractions in March suddenly can’t remember them in September. This isn’t laziness. It isn’t a lack of effort. It’s simply how the brain works. The science: we forget faster than we think we do Back in 1885, psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered something important: our brains naturally forget new information unless we revisit it. His “forg