Learn maths first, right up to calculus. It'll hurt a lot less and improve your life anyway. You can wire up circuits without knowing much but without maths it's difficult to build anything more than trivial stuff on your own with an objective set out to "I want to solve problem X". Until then you're an assembly worker wobbling on the shoulders of various dubiously designed assemblies put out by people who shouldn't be allowed to do it (Forest Mimms is an example).

Consider a transistor is a voltage-controlled current source (TRANSfer resISTOR) as a model and the head scratching starts.

Why is just as important as doing it.