Algorithms, rules and drill are certainly not unimportant (as a few of the many reformers who took inspiration from the book seem to have claimed), but our mathematical problems result more from insufficient exposure to mathematics as a way of thinking and a set of intricately connected higher-level skills than from an inability to compute.
The truth is that in many areas of the subject, mathematics has as much to do with computation as writing has to do with typing. "The first and most pernicious of these misconceptions is that mathematics is nothing more than computation. If you don't know the book (I only found it recently myself), the original book was published back in 1988: Slightly related is an interesting paragraph about math misconceptions in the 2001 preface of Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos. Kids get to thinking they "can't do algebra" when it's actually a multiplication facts issue. Our set of 240 double-sided kids flash cards includes Addition Flash cards & Subtraction Flashcards 0-20 and multiplication cards & Division Flash cards. Its simple, visual and easy to use with simple swipes on the screen to. It's not even the facts themselves it's where they come up- factoring quadratics, solving equations. Big Math Flash Cards app allows you to flip the card just like a real flash card. But I also know firsthand that not knowing their multiplication facts is a real self-esteem killer for high school students. I remember panicking while waiting to recite my multiplication facts at our teacher's desk, so I get it. You can choose from subcategories within subcategories for each Math subject to study. And arguments for or against memorization of them seem to come up everywhere all the time, too. The myriad flashcards cover high school math, pre-algebra, algebra, algebra 2, college algebra, trigonometry, basic geometry, precalculus, calculus, calculus 2, calculus 3, linear algebra, basic arithmetic, intermediate geometry, and advanced geometry.
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