There's definitely a time crunch in our curriculum. It's faster to memorize, especially if you have to know it by test time. But lack of connection means they forget it once the test is done and then they're scrambling when the final exam comes around.
@TaraMathBC: See Bahrick & Hall (1991) J. Exp. Psych.: General, 120, pp. 20-33. Learners of algebra whose practice persisted only while it was imposed on them did not retain much. If practice is miserable, no one will persist in it once the obligation to persist is removed.
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well that can be said for ANYTHING. That's what happens when kids haven't mastered basic math facts, like fractional arithmetic, so they can learn Algebra effectively. Try and rush students thru procedures w/o mastery, leads to disaster. Just saw thishttps://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1030307817297563648 …
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Ms Houle, you seem determined to ignore a basic point: you can't get kids to practice enough to achieve useful, durable results simply by compelling them to practice. This has been tried and tried and tried, and the main effect of the effort has been to inculcate math hatred.
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