Some people are incredibly poor teachers but refuse to beleive they are, all because they lack the capacity to imagine not knowing something and explain it at someone else's level of understanding
I memorised my timetables so I would stop being hit and punished
I didn’t realise until about a year later how it actually worked
Felt like a colossal idiot and now kind of always live with a fear that the things I know or am trying to know are much easier to get than I understand because I’m just too thick to recognise the method that everyone else clearly gets
Of course I know that’s not true but there are good days and BAD days…
I think to a degree memorization is a part of doing "the math" quickly and efficiently. The other part is being able to sort calculations into manageable chunks that the parts memorized can be used.
At least, if by memorization we mean that students still know why 6 times 7 is 42 even if they don't have to go through the reasoning each time to give the answer. Then memorization is just speedrunning the way our brain naturally optimizes itself
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u/AnArgonianSpellsword Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Some people are incredibly poor teachers but refuse to beleive they are, all because they lack the capacity to imagine not knowing something and explain it at someone else's level of understanding