Sentences with phrase «rote memory»

The power of rote memory was brought home to me while I was at an English boarding school which, like many, specialized in sweaty - palms learning: we were instructed to learn in a day all of the prepositions in Latin that took the accusative and all that took the ablative.

NGSS offers a shift from textbook learning and rote memory, returning students back to deep meaningful investigations in the science classroom.

I have been involved in raising Black Children (5) and what I see is that the «New Math» and the eschewing of Rote Memory has been a disaster.

Rote memory doesn't seem to work well for most kids.

Many are based on rote memory, while others have special tricks to learn some of the Math Facts.

The goal of reading instruction should be to help students achieve reading competency beyond test taking and rote memory skills.

When you provide students with opportunities to apply learning — especially through authentic, personally meaningful activities — and then provide formative assessments and feedback throughout a unit, facts move from rote memory to become part of the memory bank.

These are far more accessible for test retrieval (and longer term access) than rote memory.

At autopsy, we would've used our brains over our lifetime very differently than our ancestors, and just as a weightlifter has different muscles at autopsy than a swimmer, probably the analytic portions of your brain are enlarged compared to your ancestors while the rote memory portions are not.

Unless new rote memories are incorporated into larger, relational networks, they remain isolated bits of data in small, unconnected circuits likely to be pruned away.

Unless new rote memories are incorporated into larger, relational networks, they remain isolated bits of data in small, unconnected circuits.

Not exact matches

And because football is based on coordinated plays with fixed timing (at least in theory), rote repetition helps program players» muscle memory.

While it slightly improves the accuracy of their memory compared to rote repetition, it also slows down the speed at which they can recall a word.

While heavy drinkers showed less impairment than light drinkers on a rote fine motor test over time, they did not perform better on a test involving more short - term memory, motor speed, and more complex cognitive processing.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have made the surprising discovery that people with Alzheimer's disease retain the capability for a specific form of memory used for rote learning...

I found the film to be an experience unlike any film in recent memory (though a grad - school viewing of «The Seventh Seal» c. 1990 comes to mind), and if it seems rote or (Chrissakes!)

But instead of rote memorization, give students different ways play with and manipulate the information in order to move it into long - term memory.

If there is memorization without mental manipulation the isolated rote fact memories can only be retrieved by the specific cues through which they are practiced in repetitive drills.

While Sprenger doesn't promote rote memorization, she does note that much of the work being done with working memory involves simple rehearsals, or «training» working memory.

The incorporation of rote memorization into the sturdy existing networks of long - term memory takes place when students recognize relationships to the prior knowledge stored in those networks.

The focus will be on long - term memory retention of skills and concepts not just rote facts.

Understanding the relationship between working and long - term memory helps illustrate the false dichotomy between «conceptual understanding» and «rote memorization.»

The study, by Jo Boaler, now a professor of education at Stanford University, found that students at the project - based school did better than those at the more traditional school both on math problems requiring analytical or conceptual thought and on those considered rote, that is, those requiring memory of a rule or formula.

Memory has long been viewed as a key aspect of learning, but as the emphasis in educational standards has shifted away from rote memorization and toward the knowledge and skills needed to process new information, working memory is increasingly taking center Memory has long been viewed as a key aspect of learning, but as the emphasis in educational standards has shifted away from rote memorization and toward the knowledge and skills needed to process new information, working memory is increasingly taking center memory is increasingly taking center stage.

It's unrealistic to think that teaching via rote learning will ever be phased out completely, but it's important that schools teach students to recognise the critical difference between memory and intelligence.

Cognitive science has yielded some paradoxical findings, including that play may be the best way for children to learn the self - control needed for hard work; that rote memorization can be a stepping stone to using higher - order critical thinking and problem - solving skills; and that integrating arts into the curriculum can improve students» long - term memory of what is taught.

Domination Battles bring a welcome pinch of strategy to Hacker's Memory's usually rote combat.