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Re:China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul by esrh on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:39PM (#27945911)
However, if you were to memorize that solution, you can get really fast and accurate with relatively little actual math ability. I believe that method probably will have the greatest increase in test scores for the lowest common denominator. It really is quite abhorrent though.
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Re:China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul by derefr on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:01AM (#27946848)
Sounds like what China really needs, then, is a new approach to testing that manages to distinguish deep understanding of the underlying concepts from mechanistic/formulaic memorization.

(Tangent: Has anyone yet tried to prompt GPT3 to generate "deep" word problems?)

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Re:China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul by idiotsecant on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:21AM (#27946915)
On the other hand if you're a US nationalist interested in your team succeeding against the Chinese team this is excellent news.
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Re:China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul by atatatat on Saturday July 24, 2021 @11:29PM (#27946458)
They're doing "educate well enough to do the paperwork of our businesses" better than the US.
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