Timeline for Is there a virtue to learning how to compute by hand?
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| May 18, 2021 at 11:49 | comment | added | CubicleSoft | What will a student who has never learned to show their work do when they encounter a [real] problem which can't be solved in one step? I think many will throw up their hands in frustration [and decide] it is too challenging to be done at all. I run into this ALL the time. Perseverance and determination are things that aren't readily taught since that comes from within. This: youtube.com/watch?v=pmteqkbBfAY would not have been possible without long, hard hours of extensive research and development with two spectacular failures along the way. | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 2:46 | comment | added | ryang | Not (properly) showing their work (documenting their mathematical thinking for review/communication) is analogous to bad programming style (writing unreadable code that is hard to debug/understand). Such habits/practices are preferably cultivated as early on as possible. | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 6:41 | comment | added | ryang | "What will a student who has never learned to show their work do when they encounter a problem which can't be solved in one step? I think many will believe that if they can't do it in their heads or on their phone then it is too challenging to be done at all." <--- THIS. Fantastic answer. | |
| Mar 2, 2021 at 20:48 | history | edited | Geoffrey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 2, 2021 at 19:24 | history | answered | Geoffrey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |