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One anecdote: My North American math education seemed to focus on rote memorization, with little creative thinking at all. Did you have a different experience?
by jbay808 8y ago
One anecdote: My North American math education seemed to focus on rote memorization, with little creative thinking at all. Did you have a different experience? Not sure how they teach math in Japan though.
- 52-6F-62 8y agoNot necessarily related (and avoiding the attached political junk)— here in Ontario (Canada), the current government as ... strongly advocated... for going back to the "good old days" of rote memorization for the math curriculum versus modern discovery math methodology—ie: problem solving and creative thinking. There tend to be pillars of thought in NA.
- chmln 8y agoDon't see what the current ON government has to do with the abhorrent state of math education here. It was just as bad under the previous governments
- 52-6F-62 8y agoI was not getting into the political junk, as I said. Only pointing out that there are pillars of thought in NA who think that rote memorization as the sole method for learning mathematics was “the good old days” and is the only worthy method (with a practical example).