I was a very big fan for understanding the principles underlying the rote exercises, so I didn't need to remember the rules - just the basic principles, which I could then use to derive the rules I needed in an exam situation. Which worked brilliantly for me, right up until I ran slap-bang into electromagnetic theory. (That was painful. Scored 38% for that subject.)
You pay peanuts, you get monkeys, and that's just what we have in our school system right now. There are those teachers that struggle against it, but unfortunately, they're too few and too far between. Remind me to rant about a friend of mine, who trained as a maths and science teacher, who's likely to drop out of the system because she's too long out of uni for grad positions, but too inexperienced for anything else...
no subject
I was a very big fan for understanding the principles underlying the rote exercises, so I didn't need to remember the rules - just the basic principles, which I could then use to derive the rules I needed in an exam situation. Which worked brilliantly for me, right up until I ran slap-bang into electromagnetic theory. (That was painful. Scored 38% for that subject.)
You pay peanuts, you get monkeys, and that's just what we have in our school system right now. There are those teachers that struggle against it, but unfortunately, they're too few and too far between. Remind me to rant about a friend of mine, who trained as a maths and science teacher, who's likely to drop out of the system because she's too long out of uni for grad positions, but too inexperienced for anything else...