"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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What they don't realize is that math is based on rote learning - you
can't really "get" math until you understand the arithmetic of
multiplication and division by rote - that's my opinion anyway and
it's pretty much substantiated by what they are doing in Europe. some
of the Czech and Hungarian Universities are teaching real mathematics
the real way - doing it, explaining it, some of it by rote teaching of
the mechanics.

They are very successful.

It's kind of like drills in sports, an effort to get muscle memory working
so you don't have to be totally conscious of how to swing a bat.