Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)

Re:Girls perform better academically in almost all countries... by tester756 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @06:43PM (#26405994)

>If a student finds a particular method or approach easier to comprehend, shouldn't the teacher adapt to that rather than forcing you to use the "correct" method?

your school leaving exams or next school will probably not care

and they will test whatever they want, so why take a risk?

you can be challenged by a task which is doable in both methods, but "recommened" approach needs 3min in order to get this done,

meanwhile your's solution needs 15min. I mean here that standarized tests aren't some kind of trickery, they just tend to test how many various approaches do you know.

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also how many times can it be done? (deciding that it's ok to use other/easier method instead of "state of art" solution) once? twice? thrice? very often?

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Re:Girls perform better academically in almost all countries... by ZephyrBlu on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @06:54PM (#26406081)

You have created a strawman argument... This has nothing to do with standardized testing or "state of the art", it's about learning.

There are many situations where there are multiple approaches to a problem and none of them are more "correct" than the other ones.

> but "recommened" approach needs 3min in order to get this done, meanwhile your's solution needs 15min

The point is that what if the recommended approach takes someone 15min, and a different approach that they understand better takes 3min.

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