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You expound an overly romantic view of education, that is completely at odds with the actual practice of learning. There are many things you only learn by repea
by Confusion 17y ago
You expound an overly romantic view of education, that is completely at odds with the actual practice of learning. There are many things you only learn by repeated application of the same basic principle to a great many 'contrived tasks'.
I wouldn't have been as proficient at arithmetic as I was at age 9, if I hadn't done the same simple "2-digit number times 2-digit number" exercise hundreds of times. You can't possible practice that on 'challenging, related to life' tasks.
- LogicHoleFlaw 17y agoIt is amazing how much better at arithmetic I became when I started caring about the stats calculations in my favorite MMO. Just saying.
- kragen 17y agoFiguring tips, baseball statistics, extrapolating energy consumption with population growth, arithmetic competitions, currency conversions for price comparison, price comparisons given a unit price, the price of 2400 grams of apples... Most of these you can do with division instead, and some of them you have to, but it's harder. The competitions are probably the most effective way to motivate some students to be really excellent; I don't know how effective they are at raising the average competence level.