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But "you need to learn the hard way everybody else did it before X formula/equation was developed!" I agree it's nice to know the logic and background that is
by spike021 10y ago
But "you need to learn the hard way everybody else did it before X formula/equation was developed!"
I agree it's nice to know the logic and background that is the foundation of how we got _here_, but sometimes the older details aren't really as important and take away time from students learning the modern, more useful techniques and concepts.
One of the big things about kids and math these days is that you have less and less of their attention. If they see it's getting too hard, most don't take the challenge and they just put less effort in.
- rconti 10y agoI couldn't disagree more. It gets too hard when you're asking students to memorize arbitrary equations that make no sense to them. It gets too hard when you give them 30 problems that look identical and they do 3 or 4 and figure that's good enough because they know how to run numbers through the meat grinder of a formula. I don't see how students can truly learn if they don't understand the formulas they're applying and their relevance to the real world.