17 May 2022 3:22 pm
Skans » 17 May 2022, 3:19 pm » wrote: ↑ I believe I said the exact same thing you are saying. Go back and re-read what I said.
Before you can teach processes, your students often need to learn rote memorization. With simple math, it's the tables. You can teach algebra all day long, but if kids don't memorize the formula for the quadratic equation, factoring formulas, matrix formulas etc, how do you even get into higher level algebra?
I guess that I can at it from the standpoint of someone who taught economics and statistics at the graduate level and at a community college. The students were clueless when I asked them to really explain a concept to me. Yes, they could spit out some curated, memorized stuff but they had no fundamental understanding. For example, they could do a supply - demand graph but ask them to explain a vertical demand line and you may as well be speaking Uzbek.