🔬[klr blog] In a recent experiment, most students got every “solve”-type question right, but couldn’t explain why. klr.tumblr.com/post/164491343
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I was really looking forward to reading about how you fixed this, & then the blog post ended :( still looking forward to the solution, tho!
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this is why I am not as opposed to teaching kids "how" to do problems b4 "why". Why can be difficult to understand without knowing how 1st.
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I've had a fair amount of math education, but I still blundered my first attempt at this :-)
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Being able to coherently explain how you do what you do does seem like a rare skill at any age...
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Worked on a similar project at Berkeley CS and found that a lot of idk etc( non answers) come from students not wanting to type thing out
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Yes, that’s a totally plausible explanation. We’re planning to repeat in a graded-at-school context, which will hopefully mitigate somewhat.
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