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> A few problems in, I noticed him pause when starting on a new problem, and after a brief moment, he wrote down an answer without any intermediate steps or wor
by Zababa 5y ago
> A few problems in, I noticed him pause when starting on a new problem, and after a brief moment, he wrote down an answer without any intermediate steps or work.
Isn't that pretty frequent for high school work? I'm not a genius, far from it, but I spent a big part of high school writing down solutions and being bothered by the professors to write the steps (that's how I felt at the time, I've since understood why they acted that way).
- im3w1l 5y agoI think you could make a case for a sort of back-and-forth, where you test your understanding by trying to do it all in your head, get the wrong answer, carefully check your work by doing all of the steps on paper, find the mistake, make an "oh-of-course" facepalm, and then try doing the next problem in your head.
- Zababa 5y agoI would just add an "if" before "get the wrong answer" and I would agree with you, although this won't make you win at high school.