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Re:American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math'... by BoxOfRain on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:44AM (#28130239)
My British state education really did feel like "memorise just enough to jump through these arbitrary hoops which keep the government off our backs" sometimes. It's very exam-driven rather than learning for its own sake and apparently it's got even worse since schools started transitioning to academies and Gove's reforms took effect.
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Re:American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math'... by cabalamat on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:45PM (#28131071)
One fix for this is to have exam questions such that you cannot pass them unless you have true understanding rather than rote memorisation.
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Re:American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math'... by nicoburns on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @01:22PM (#28131606)
That's one part of the equation, but it only works if you have teachers and a curriculum that are capable of imparting that understanding.
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Re:American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math'... by fiftyacorn on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @01:57PM (#28132027)
Normally the curriculum was split between knowledge and understanding, and problem solving. You could memorize the first part and not the second part. The problem solving sorted out who got the grades
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