Jo Boaler said:
data from the 13 million students who took PISA [math] tests showed that the lowest-achieving students worldwide were those who used a memorization strategy – those who thought of math as a set of methods to remember and who approached math by trying to memorize steps. The highest-achieving students were those who thought of math as a set of connected, big ideas.
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The U.S. has more memorizers than most other countries in the world.
via http://hechingerreport.org/memorizers-are-the-lowest-achievers-and-other-common-core-math-surprises
Image credit:Â maths, Sean MacEntee
