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There was another “I’m bad at math” thread a while back I stumbled across and drilling was considered basically the way to get good at math by most people posti
by the_only_law 5y ago
There was another “I’m bad at math” thread a while back I stumbled across and drilling was considered basically the way to get good at math by most people posting.
… which is all the more reason I’ll never become good at math. I’d rather drill a hole in my head than subject myself to drilling back to back, contextless, boring problems I don’t care about.
- mlyle 5y agoI think there's a few points where drill makes sense. In each case, after you have a good understanding, and you're seeking to become fluid and avoid dumb mistakes. (Even if you have a good understanding, if you're consciously thinking about each step you'll error a fair bit, and on a 20 step problem you can't afford this error rate and slowness) Arithmetic facts, basic algebraic manipulation, big polynomials, derivatives and integrals. But we do much more drill than that. And, worse, it's often as homework, where you can be guaranteed a decent slice of the class is practicing it wrong.