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Re:Study: Students did not benefit from studying according t... by danharaj on Sunday May 20, 2018 @11:25PM (#17115953)
In mathematics there's always several ways to apply one's senses to understand and manipulate a concept. For example, an equation can be understood as being a string of symbols or a commutative diagram, or as a string diagram. These emphasize symbolic processing and spatial manipulation to varying degrees.

It would be perverse to tell a mathematician to use only their best intuition to learn. These sort of thing lean on each other to make one another stronger. Why would it be any different for any sort of learner?

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Re:Study: Students did not benefit from studying according t... by hyperpallium on Monday May 21, 2018 @05:37AM (#17117183)
Not "learning", but I recall a survey of mathematicians, and their main reasoning styles broke down something like visual (80%), kinesthetic (15%), linguistic (5%) - the main point was that most mathematicians don't think with notation, it's just a way to nail down details and communicate.
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