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Horace - that was true in your day. Common core math and the Singapore method it’s based on really does a good job with creating deeper understanding. That’s why parents complain so much about it.
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The utility of the rote mechanics was that anybody could memorize them, and then everybody "knew math". I wonder if you run up against intellectual ability barriers in attempts to teach the ideas.
Education is extremely important.
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The utility of the rote mechanics was that anybody could memorize them, and then everybody "knew math". I wonder if you run up against intellectual ability barriers in attempts to teach the ideas.
@Horace said in Geek humor:
The utility of the rote mechanics was that anybody could memorize them, and then everybody "knew math".
I once taught a set-7 math class. Forget long-division, half of them could barely use a ruler.
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The utility of the rote mechanics was that anybody could memorize them, and then everybody "knew math". I wonder if you run up against intellectual ability barriers in attempts to teach the ideas.
@Horace said in Geek humor:
The utility of the rote mechanics was that anybody could memorize them, and then everybody "knew math". I wonder if you run up against intellectual ability barriers in attempts to teach the ideas.
I think they very much do. They teach multiple methods to arrive at solutions really admiring the problem in many ways. My son has flourished with it, I’ve always thought it was a special kind of torture for the mathphobic.
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@Copper said in Geek humor:
My rote learning of multiplication tables has served me well over the last 60 years.
So has my memorization of the Nicene Creed.
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Re: “rote learning of multiplication tables”
It’s really just caching for some frequently used information. Some information is more frequently needed than others, so it’s worthwhile to commit them to memory for quick access rather than to recompute or re-lookup every time the information is needed.
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I wanted to add a third but it was an uphill climb.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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@jon-nyc said in Geek humor:
I wanted to add a third but it was an uphill climb.
Please. I can't bear the burden of another bad pun.
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@jon-nyc said in Geek humor:
I wanted to add a third but it was an uphill climb.
You just need to be boulder,
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