teaching math facts is brain surgery

Fast and efficient retrieval of facts: Declarative Memory

• Cognitive and learning mechanisms are understood

• Most children in the U.S. do not achieve this

• Interfere with problem solving in which facts are embedded

repeat:

most children in the U.S. do not achieve fast and efficient retrieval of math facts


I'm starting to think parents are underpaid.

source:
Learning Processes Group
January 11, 2007
New Orleans, LA
Whole Number Arithmetic
Math Panel Update

Contributing Members
Dave Geary, Task Group Chair
Dan Berch
Wade Boykin
Valerie Reyna
Bob Siegler
Jennifer Graban, staff

see also:
somewhere on another planet not my own