Thank you for giving me a name for this - I have a habit of spelling this out for specific students when working 1-1. It can be really powerful.
As a "professional mathematician", what I've found that that even us professional mathematicians do certain steps more overtly than needed because it works better in our brains. For example, I find calculating a/b-1 to be tricky, so I write it as a/b - b/b = (a-b)/b to make it obvious for myself. That's not "cheating" or being "stupid". It's working efficiently. The reason it's not second nature for me is because most of the time I'm writing Matlab scripts to do it for me :-)
Craig! Oh man! You took me back to my high school days and math class! I learned a new word today by the way!
I wish that my math teachers would have done this especially after going through exam answers and just making it obvious because I think this speaks to the fact that teachers can have the access to be able to connect the different ways students learn to any activity. Like this would be perfect for a visual learner like myself rather than the teacher just saying it!
Really cool stuff! Can't wait to follow along! I just subscribed!
Thank you for giving me a name for this - I have a habit of spelling this out for specific students when working 1-1. It can be really powerful.
As a "professional mathematician", what I've found that that even us professional mathematicians do certain steps more overtly than needed because it works better in our brains. For example, I find calculating a/b-1 to be tricky, so I write it as a/b - b/b = (a-b)/b to make it obvious for myself. That's not "cheating" or being "stupid". It's working efficiently. The reason it's not second nature for me is because most of the time I'm writing Matlab scripts to do it for me :-)
Craig! Oh man! You took me back to my high school days and math class! I learned a new word today by the way!
I wish that my math teachers would have done this especially after going through exam answers and just making it obvious because I think this speaks to the fact that teachers can have the access to be able to connect the different ways students learn to any activity. Like this would be perfect for a visual learner like myself rather than the teacher just saying it!
Really cool stuff! Can't wait to follow along! I just subscribed!