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How important is memorizing math formulas? Is it still important, or is knowing how to use technology and how to find a formula enough?
In high school and college. For preparing for 'real life'.
How important is memorizing math formulas? Is it still important, or is knowing how to use technology and how to find a formula enough?
In high school and college. For preparing for 'real life'.
Not important at all. You can always just Google it.
what does someone do if the internet is down?
imo, we are depending on technology way to much.
example: at a fast food place I had a bill of $7.24. I gave the young cashier a $20. As she was entering the amount received I stated I have the 0.24. She had already entered the $20 and the register stated my change was $12.76 She could not figure in her head that when I gave her a total of $20.24 I would get $13 back in change.
While it is not a formula. My point is many people today are so hooked on technology that some have forgotten how to think and solve problems.
what does someone do if the internet is down?
imo, we are depending on technology way to much.
example: at a fast food place I had a bill of $7.24. I gave the young cashier a $20. As she was entering the amount received I stated I have the 0.24. She had already entered the $20 and the register stated my change was $12.76 She could not figure in her head that when I gave her a total of $20.24 I would get $13 back in change.
While it is not a formula. My point is many people today are so hooked on technology that some have forgotten how to think and solve problems.
How important is memorizing math formulas? Is it still important, or is knowing how to use technology and how to find a formula enough?
In high school and college. For preparing for 'real life'.
what does someone do if the internet is down?
imo, we are depending on technology way to much.
example: at a fast food place I had a bill of $7.24. I gave the young cashier a $20. As she was entering the amount received I stated I have the 0.24. She had already entered the $20 and the register stated my change was $12.76 She could not figure in her head that when I gave her a total of $20.24 I would get $13 back in change.
While it is not a formula. My point is many people today are so hooked on technology that some have forgotten how to think and solve problems.
what does someone do if the internet is down?
imo, we are depending on technology way to much.
example: at a fast food place I had a bill of $7.24. I gave the young cashier a $20. As she was entering the amount received I stated I have the 0.24. She had already entered the $20 and the register stated my change was $12.76 She could not figure in her head that when I gave her a total of $20.24 I would get $13 back in change.
While it is not a formula. My point is many people today are so hooked on technology that some have forgotten how to think and solve problems.
As someone who is often on the other side of the register, that **** is annoying. Just do that before, and it's not problem.
It's not about not thinking and being able to solve a problem, it's about having to do "surprise math."
As someone who is often on the other side of the register, that **** is annoying. Just do that before, and it's not problem.
It's not about not thinking and being able to solve a problem, it's about having to do "surprise math."
I assure you that large numbers of Americans could not do that calculation under that pressure.
How important is memorizing math formulas? Is it still important, or is knowing how to use technology and how to find a formula enough?
In high school and college. For preparing for 'real life'.
I assure you that large numbers of Americans could not do that calculation under that pressure.
As someone who is often on the other side of the register, that **** is annoying. Just do that before, and it's not problem.
It's not about not thinking and being able to solve a problem, it's about having to do "surprise math."
How important is memorizing math formulas? Is it still important, or is knowing how to use technology and how to find a formula enough?
In high school and college. For preparing for 'real life'.
As with everything, the key to being efficient is to understand the *reason* behind it. At that point, remembering the formula is nothing
I think most high schools are very terrible at this. You just do the math, no applying, no explaining it. By the time you get to trig and later, you need to recollect things and understand the mechanic or you're gonna take forever
Trig also requires some memorization, in order to know when to do what.
That's really true of all math. Knowing why a quadratic has two answers is explainable with the quadratic equation and a graph, but you have to memorize the quadratic equation at some point in order to use it efficiently enough to solve for x(s). The higher up ypu go, the more and more important this becomes. Hell, just getting the order of operations right is a problem for some people, and that is nothing more than an exercise in memory.
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