"Basic math and physics education helps build intuition for it, but without people are really bad."

Erm, in some abstract ways yes - but actually people are very good at extrapolating current physical events. "It is getting hot fast? Oh not, it might even get hotter, lets look for shade."

Or throwing a ball. You would need calculus to correctly calculate the flight path of the ball, yet we can do so, without and very fast.

Where our intuition fails often, is understanding the reason why things happen. For this physics and math should be taught from very early on.

We are (on average/intrinsically) terrible at predicting or even guessing how certain things will behave. A lot of times when you learn something like say skiing or diving, a major part of training is to untrain your brain from guessing incorrectly how things will unfold/what is the appropriate action. Try recovering a plane from a stall -- you might be able to guess why something happens, but you have to fight your brain to aim the nose of the plane down. (Again on average.)

We humans optimized for everything related to our body movement.

Of course we have no intuition for how planes behave.

And with Ski and co. I would argue it is somewhat intuitive, it is just a new tool that needs learning. But I do not remember learning ski or snowboard felt unintuitive. It was just hard coordinating it, but this is not unlearning to me.

> But I do not remember learning ski or snowboard felt unintuitive.

I struggled for years with 'keep your weight on the downhill ski'. When I realised that it sort of meant 'lean downhill' turning on steeps suddenly became a lot easier. This was counter intuitive in that when I turned on a bike, I was invariably leaning in to the turn, not out.

It was actually learning to skate on skis that helped me make the transition to better turning.