The Anti-Memorization Movement
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The anti- memorization movement has left millions of students unable to think because every little operation consumes their working memory. For instance, solving equations.
It’s really smooth when basic arithmetic is automatic. It’s like moving puzzle pieces around.
You just gotta figure out how they fit together.
But if you are not automatic on your basic arithmetic, if you don’t know your times tables, if you’re always having to recalculate all that from scratch, then every puzzle piece that you try to move around when solving these equations, it’s like a heavy weight.
It’s really hard to lift at all. So you can’t really move it around much, much less figure out where it should go.
And it’s the same way all the way up that ladder of math from arithmetic to algebra to calculus to all sorts of university level math and beyond.
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