Sentences with phrase «by rote with»

Beginning with counting and moving through topics such as multiplication and fractions, Arithmetic provides a nuanced understanding of working with numbers, gently connecting procedures that we once learned by rote with intuitions long since muddled by education.

Not exact matches

On one hand, going too far to the rules - based side will lead to an organization that is too rigid, with employees often doing things by rote that no longer make sense.

When I try to help my grandkids with their homework I try to make it as plain as possible — unless I want them to engage their brains and think, and I'm more interested in them learning to think than in learning «correct» answers by rote.

Generations of Catholics, including priests, learned [scholasticism] almost by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.

David Brooks» recent column on genius, which offered a portrait of the Mozart who excelled by logging his ten thousand hours of rote practice to get on sooner to the good stuff, seemed to gibe poorly with not only our romantic understanding of unique human excellence but our practical....

Generations of Catholics, including priests, learned it almost by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.

This people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote.

Amazing how when I needed answers for the deep questions of life I had two choices to make them with: Follow (by rote) what the Bible said or remember what is the true spirit of who Jesus is and how he would react to an issue or problem.

For so long I have been making cookies by rote, with a little tweaking here and there to shake things up.

KANSAS CITY (4 -1-0) moved into a first - place tie with San Diego in the Western Division by defeating Denver (1 -4-0) 37 - 10 despite a 100 - yard kickoff return by the Broncos» Nemiah Wilson and the presence of Quarterback Tobin Rote in the Denver lineup after two seasons of retirement.

Cameron, ever the man of the people, appeared at a press conference the next day with an answer he seemed to have learned by rote.

Here he's working in a middle - class suburb of New York, where Marlo and her husband, Drew (Ron Livingston, playing a very Ron Livingston character), are slightly overwhelmed by everything: they have two kids, one with emerging special needs, and a baby on the way, and their lives have devolved to rote routine.

Nice attention to character building at the beginning is muted by the generic road trip story and the rote character arcs by its supporting cast, which includes many talented actors like Toni Collette and Alice Eve, along with noteworthy cameos by Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day), Patton Oswalt, Tony Revolori (The Grand Budapest Hotel) and more.

Yet his story, in which Hal achieves self - actualization and becomes a savior by confronting his dead dad's fallibility, is a tedious hodgepodge of rote conflicts and character hang - ups, all while failing to provide Reynolds with a single cocky one - liner to go with his wiseass routine, which ultimately proves as strained as the film's energy is dim.

These sequences are straight out of any rote thriller, but they're meant to be profound — critical of the conventions of the genre — because Paul (Arno Frisch) breaks the fourth wall a number of times; this is Scream for art - house aficionados, with Haneke at one point curbing the audience's euphoria by rewinding the film immediately after Anna shoots Peter in the chest.

What it gets right on paper is immediately apparent: Casting hot - ticket stars against type as crestfallen romantics struggling to cope with mental illness provides two attractive but ostensibly vacuous mainstream celebrities (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) the enviable opportunity to prove their worth with conspicuously «revelatory» performances; meanwhile, the fundamental seriousness of their characters» respective arcs, with Cooper hoping to control the outbursts caused by his bipolar disorder and Lawrence attempting to overcome her grief over her husband's recent death, raise the emotional stakes considerably, elevating largely light material from rote comedy to overtly «adult» drama.

«By relying so heavily on rote memorization, and by testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacityâ $» and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.&raquBy relying so heavily on rote memorization, and by testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacityâ $» and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.&raquby testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacityâ $» and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.»

Students do math drills — by rote — and spelling is learned with games such as Hangman.

In the digital age we live in, going back to learning times tables by rote seems like an archaic form of learning, which is likely to be difficult for the already stretched teaching profession, so coming up with enjoyable paths of learning for both the educator and the student is more than likely the best option.

For many parents (and some teachers), they were taught a process for solving problems — often by rote — with little understanding when they were at school themselves.

«By relying so heavily on rote memorization, and by testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacity — and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.&raquBy relying so heavily on rote memorization, and by testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacity — and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.&raquby testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacity — and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.»

In contrast, Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf elevate the term with a more robust definition: «By adding the word engaged, we mean to distinguish between the skilled but rote and unsophisticated kind of academic literacy that many «successful» students master, and the more analytic, critical, and discipline - specific ways of making meaning emblematic of engaged learners.»

When Bishop examined the effects of high - school exit exams, one traditional form of external accountability, on intrinsic motivation by comparing whether students subjected to this approach engaged in less reading for pleasure or were more likely to associate learning with rote memorization, he found no evidence that accountability undermined natural curiosity and even found some evidence of the opposite.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

A key reason that flipped teaching and learning marries so well with the active classroom is that by pushing some of the rote instructional practice outside of, and prior to, class sessions, it frees up valuable face - to - face class time for applied learning pursuits.

Organized by the Learning Policy Institute (LPI), «Walking the Talk: Teacher Preparation for Deeper Learning» highlighted findings from a national study of seven teacher preparation programs that are organized in ways that align with deeper learning approaches — meaning less emphasis on rote learning and more on experiential, innovative, collaborative, and equity - focused pedagogy.

We are campaigning on high stakes testing, so that pupils learn less by rote, and more by considering problems and challenges in real life situations — where they are required, also, to develop the skills that employers are crying out for — speaking and listening well; collaborating with each other well; using IT.

The school has launched cultural competency training through professional development sessions run by the EDCO collaborative, but several teachers said the sessions were rote, with no dialogue across staff.

It also ships with Metal Gear Online, a rote multiplayer shooter made more interesting by a skill system resembling the perks in Call of Duty 4.

While Submerged is a platformer that stands out by being combat - free, it is riddled with unsatisfying storytelling devices and rote gameplay elements.

One could have easily organized a rote exhibition of the same title with completely different works by these artists examining an affinity of form or subject matter.

Clearer awareness of the effect of integration across harmonics is needed (rather than reliance on rote memorization of procedures advocated by some for dealing with less well - structured time series).

So easy to throw around terms learned by rote and not back them up with any hard data, isn't it?

Interestingly Surrey, led by Diane Watts as Mayor, is in the throes of trying to establish a Community Court, echoing the efforts of Vancouver to proactively mete out a methodology of a clogged court system that deals with offenders by rote.

Because most new associates possess low skill levels, their work product tends to be either (a) utterly rote and low - value, (b) riddled with errors, (c) subject to massive editing and / or discounting by partners, or (d) all of the above.

This only works once you get past the by - rote HR interview types and get to sit down with your potential supervisor.