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I very much agree. Unfortunately, memorization is out of vogue in the teaching community. You don't get a PhD in teaching for saying what we already do works

I very much agree. Unfortunately, memorization is out of vogue in the teaching community. You don't get a PhD in teaching for saying what we already do works so you have to come up with newfangled ways of teaching that, sadly, often miss the mark. They are then, of course, quickly copied by all the textbook companies.

Deestan 17y ago
> You don't get a PhD in teaching for saying what we already do works But it doesn't; at least not for everyone. I had to quit maths at high school because it was just too frustrating memorizing apparently useless and meaningless formulas and definitions. My teacher wouldn't explain (she probably didn't even understand) what any of it was. Later, at the university, the beauty of calculus suddenly made sense of everything, and I got a renewed interest in maths. I now hold a master's degree in algorithms and take university math in my spare time for fun. I curse my high school math teacher's name to this day. I hope she retired early.