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Why Memorize Math Facts?

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Why Memorize Math Facts?

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by Aimee Yermish, Educational Consultant click for printer-ready article My private practice is full of kids whose parents thought that way, and now have to pay me lots of money to teach the kids what they could have been taught for free in second or third grade. They usually hit the wall some time in middle school or in algebra I, where you have to use these math facts rapidly on the fly. Quick! Two numbers that multiply to -24 and sum to 5! No, sorry, using a calculator to do guess-and-check to factor a quadratic equation is not an efficient strategy. And inefficient rather rapidly blends into ineffective, because when it takes you too long and uses too much working memory to do the basic skills, you can’t keep track of the higher skills you’re supposed to be learning in your current grade. It’s like a dyslexic kid who can’t keep track of the flow of ideas in a long article because he’s spending too much brain power (and hence time) on reading individual words. It may seem like it on

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