{"id":1007,"date":"2024-01-31T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2024-01-31T03:52:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T03:52:56","slug":"mental-computation-and-auto-response-same-same-or-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/2024\/01\/31\/mental-computation-and-auto-response-same-same-or-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Computation and Auto Response \u2013 Same-Same or Different?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ theme_builder_area=”post_content” _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]

If you want students to be better at maths, ditch the flashcards and instead focus on their ability to think flexibly and apply mental computation strategies.<\/i><\/p>\n

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An article written by Rob and published by the Mathematical Association of Victoria in their journal\u00a0\u2018Prime Number\u2019<\/i>. Rob discusses his approach to mental computation, and why many teachers set their students up to struggle with it by placing too much importance on rote-learning. A copy of the article is available\u00a0here<\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want students to be better at maths, ditch the flashcards and instead focus on their ability to think flexibly and apply mental computation strategies. An article written by Rob and published by the Mathematical Association of Victoria in their journal\u00a0\u2018Prime Number\u2019. Rob discusses his approach to mental computation, and why many teachers set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}