Rote Learning

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izzop

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Hi,

Waiting for being shot down, or I'm a Troll, whatever or however......

Not having children of my own and after having a chat with both a 'Teacher' & parent, I'm told by both that 'Rote' learning is no longer used.

Instead pupils are asked to be 'creative', really?!

Being creative & not taught by Rote, how will it sink in?
 
But really, does it fail after school level?

Don't get me wrong, I've seen the other side, where someone very highly qualified doesn't have the commonsense they are born with!
 
Fenris said:
Knowing something does not mean you can use what you know to tackle a problem. What is important is that you understand the information and its uses.
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Yes, very true, but if you don't know the something?

Surely, the uses comes later?
 
ElvisFan said:
Absolute cobblers.

Rote learning was the way things were done before calculators were cheaply available.

For instance, the reason I know that 6 x 8 = 48 is not that I've worked it out, it's that times tables were learned by rote as a mantra at school 35 years ago.
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I second that, I cannot see how maths could ever be 'creative', maths is maths....

Yes, where it's applied, might be, but it's all the same.
 
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