This article doesn't mention rote. Do you believe that rote is the only or best way to develop long term memory?
Ms Houle, I have lived a large part of my adult life in Japan, and speak the language fluently. Rote learning is not huge at the primary level. This is a bizarre lie, and I am puzzled that you should be persuaded by it. Please read Stigler, Stevenson, Lewis, et. al. on this.
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I cannot answer for your experience however I can certainly answer for my daughter's as well as for
@rcraigen who also spent a work term in Japan. Rote learning is evident there and in Singapore, both high performing math nations. https://twitter.com/adamboxer1/status/1009185700472852480 … &https://twitter.com/NumCog/status/976109377634689024 … -
Stigler et. al. have studied these classrooms, and the pedagogical practices in use there, for decades (and speak the local languages fluently.) I strongly urge you to read their work. Japanese teachers are extremely subtle in the influence they exert.
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