In article <123901bf9599$bc4078e0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Herman Rubin wrote:
>> > This might possibly be the case for the weak students, but
>> > not for the strong ones. It is the concepts which are the
>> > most important part, and concepts need little, if any,
>> > practice
>and Muriel Strand responded:
>> i'm not sure the statement below is true for this strong student. when it
>comes
>> to applying the concepts, you do need to know them inside and out and much
>of
>> that intuition (for me) came from reams of homework problems.
> I'm with Muriel on this one. Even when you *think* you understand a
>concept, trying to *use* it is a (the?) acid test of whether you do. Even
>if you really do understand it as soon as you read it, there is always the
>question - if nothing else - "how would this work for me in practice?" that
>is best answered by rolling up the sleeves & getting your fingers dirty
>right up to the elbows. The strongest students have the most to gain by
>this, as they will develop a far deeper understanding.
As I keep stating, a concept is not understood unless it can
be used. If you cannot use it in situations differing from
the examples and exercises, you do not understand it.
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are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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