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re: 9+6 = ? "Our young learners might not be altogether comfortable..."
Posted on 9/5/14 at 8:29 am to BugAC
Posted on 9/5/14 at 8:29 am to BugAC
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Yes, but how can you do these complex calculations? Because you learned the correct way of calculating them as a child.
wrote memorization may be how you and i learned the first time, but it's not the "correct" way
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Forcing kids to use shortcuts that, as adults, are commonplace, doesn't work when the kid doesn't know the basics of mathematics.
what exactly makes wrote memorization a "basic" of math?
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Posted on 9/5/14 at 8:38 am to SlowFlowPro
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wrote memorization may be how you and i learned the first time, but it's not the "correct" way
Rote memorization is how learning occurs at its infancy. You don't teach a kid the concept of Base 10. You say, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5,..."
Posted on 9/5/14 at 8:46 am to SlowFlowPro
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wrote memorization
It's rote, not wrote, for future reference.
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