In our course text Boaler suggests that students at Amber Hill were disadvantaged in their procedural learning of mathematics. A result of this form of learning is that students forget rules and procedures over time.
I do not view memorizing formulas and rules as learning. To learn we must experience and connect. If students at Amber Hill are practicing procedures for a test and then forgetting the material there is no learning, no new knowledge has been acquired. Is there really need to debate procedural learning over conceptual learning?
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