At least people who do the learning styles thing are interested in how it all works though. One student told me they were a very tactile person - I didn't ask how that might be incorporated into the learning environment but I'm still quite curious. Fuzzy felt notes?It could be the way people conceptualize things. I had the opportunity to do some tutoring for some people just learning negative numbers. Some folks visualized using the number line just fine, but one of the students couldn't grok it until I put the concept in terms of hot and cold. The visual of moving up and down a line didn't work for him, but the tactile concept of hot canceling cold did. I could see someone defining that as the difference between visual and tactile.
When she was rid of the pretense of paper and pen, phrase-making and biography, she turned her attention in a more legitimate direction, though, strangely enough, she would rather have confessed her wildest dreams of hurricane and prairie than the fact that, upstairs, alone in her room, she rose early in the morning or sat up late at night to... work at mathematics.It wouldn't have quite the same feeling as "sat up late at night to... memorize equations"?
1), and now you actually have to learn something. So you flip back and forth, and try to jam things together, and never really do any more work than what's required to answer a problem. It can get you a grade, and you pat yourself on the back and feel like a puzzle solving badass, but is it a good way to learn?« Older Meet Elisany Silva [YouTube; Spanish with English ... | NOW WE CAN TRAVEL WITHOUT EMBA... Newer »
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