The deep understanding comes after knowing the facts. At a low level, you can point out all the patterns that are in multiplication tables, but they won’t be r

The deep understanding comes after knowing the facts. At a low level, you can point out all the patterns that are in multiplication tables, but they won’t be remembered until the student has internalized the facts. At a higher level, teaching epsilon-delta proofs isn’t a good way to learn calculus. Memorizing the building blocks and the chain rule is.