In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Muriel Strand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
>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.
Concepts are not learned by memorizing words. They are not
learned until they can be applied to novel problems.
Students, not most of the bodies we find in our classes,
realize that they need to do problems until they can do
this. They will do too many. But they should not do the
reams of too simple problems.
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