Why not teach heavy use of mnemonics and mental math throughout grade school? I haven't a good source to tell me, but isn't there a coralation between active memory use and increased aplitude in math and increased rate of prossesing information, thus increasing learning time?
Why not teach younger students to memorize en masse for the purpose of increased mental capacity? And the data just might in use.
And ban calculators in school, and focus on mental mathematics throughout every grade?
Could we possibly even teach advanced physioarithmetic?
(means using limbs to count to high numbers and do math, thus treating the body as a really big abacus).
2007-09-07
14:14:39
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Mitchell
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And why does the public school system (NC in paticular) seem to underestimate our capabilities?
Why not push us to our full potential, instead of doing just enough to get us to pass EOCs? The Early College programs try to achieve this, but they're not enough, and they only focus on high school.
2007-09-07
14:32:09 ·
update #1
I went to the Mentat Wiki website, and it had a lot of interesting stuff. You'ld have to go there to see what I mean.
2007-09-07
14:34:09 ·
update #2