(January 15, 2017 at 2:28 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Skills you don't use are really easy to forget. It's not exactly a skill that finds much use in everyday life, at least not for me. I'm surprised I still remember how.
That gets at another weakness in the way math was traditionally taught. Too procedural. Just practice the algorithm without much comprehension for how it accomplishes what we're after or why it is a useful operation for particular questions. Little wonder that so many adults feel so happy to deride the subject and avoid it wherever possible.
