I have seen this argued before. However I've had trouble finding the people who find rote formulas a better way to learn. In my math classes, if I found myself

I have seen this argued before. However I've had trouble finding the people who find rote formulas a better way to learn. In my math classes, if I found myself forgetting the formulas, I found it useful to stop and think about what the formula is trying to accomplish, and re-derive it from scratch. That works, but you can't do it if you don't understand the point of the formula in the first place.