My last math teacher met our class with the following words: "Please take out your math books and pocket calculators and have a thorough look at them... You won't see them for the rest of this year.".
He encouraged us not to learn formula by heart, but instead to learn the reasoning behind it so we would be able to come up with a solution regardless and learn to think mathematically.
My last math teacher met our class with the following words: "Please take out your math books and pocket calculators and have a thorough look at them... You won't see them for the rest of this year.".
He encouraged us not to learn formula by heart, but instead to learn the reasoning behind it so we would be able to come up with a solution regardless and learn to think mathematically.
I wish I had a teacher like that.