Sentences with phrase «memorizing by rote»

Sheba the mathematical chimp, for example, may not have been adding, but merely memorizing by rote.

Rather than asking students to memorize by rote, to accumulate facts and figures, Common Core calls for nuanced understanding, applicable to real - world problems.

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«I feel that there's a huge disconnect between science and the public because it's depicted as rote memorization in schools, when by definition, if you can memorize it, it's not science,» says Ingber, who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

True learning is not about memorizing or learning by rote.