Anki-Fy Your Life

Re:Anki-Fy Your Life by hyperbovine on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:44PM (#35215132)

Oh man I could not disagree more. “Math facts” don’t require any sort of conjuring, in fact cease to seem mystical at all, once you have a deep understanding of the material. Take your favorite math textbook—do you seriously think the author wrote all that down by rote memorization? Of course not: it came naturally as a byproduct of study. Memorization for the sake of memorizing is the worst possible way to learn mathematics.

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Re:Anki-Fy Your Life by yCombLinks on Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:07PM (#35215608)

The 2 aren't mutually exclusive. If you give 2 middle schoolers a test and one knows all of his time tables by rote, he's going to fly circles around the "kid with deep understanding" that's writing out the multiples manually.

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Re:Anki-Fy Your Life by i2ksbu2b on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:06AM (#35216217)

Is what you are measuring actually meaningful?

Also you dont need to write them out, you can still calculate it in your head "manually".

I think second student may have easier time to apply knowledge on things like 4 * 2,75.

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Re:Anki-Fy Your Life by watwut on Sunday March 19, 2023 @03:29AM (#35216827)

If the test is purely about multiplying small numbers and the other kid don't know multiply, maybe.

If the test is designed to test understanding, then the kid with deep understanding will win.

By your definition, multiplying kid is faster at multiplying, but don't really know what he is doing outside of memorized situation. And at other is better at everything else.

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Re:Anki-Fy Your Life by yCombLinks on Sunday March 19, 2023 @09:04AM (#35218531)

This applies to lots of areas though, the multiples is just one tiny example. Like rote memorization of an api for a language. It's far easier to see and plan ahead when you don't have to constantly stop to figure out something else. More of your mental energy can go toward higher level thinking when you don't have to continually downshift to figure out the low level pieces.

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Re:Anki-Fy Your Life by hyperbovine on Sunday March 19, 2023 @04:14PM (#35223070)

Now let’s ask both of those kids to multiply 226*148, and see who comes out on top.

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Re:Anki-Fy Your Life by tomjen3 on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:14PM (#35264118)

If you give them a typical school tests designed to test a typical school scenario, then the kid best at school will get the highest score.

But the question is, if school tests are at all related to reality. I don't think so.

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Re:Anki-Fy Your Life by emodendroket on Sunday March 19, 2023 @12:38AM (#35216098)

How do you have a "deep understanding of the material" without committing any of it to memory?

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