This is an awfully dispiriting portrait! Automaticity is useful, but we can promote fluency without creating this response. eg. Kamii made card games involving mental math; her kids naturally wanted to speed up play w each other, so they noticed patterns and memorized as needed…
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From a second grade girl. This was years ago, but her face and fear is indelibly in my memory. Dramatic, yes. That's who she was. Can we end the tyranny of timed tests?
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