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Drill, student, drill

Despite the education world’s rejection of “drill and kill, rote learning has its uses, writes Virginia Heffernan in the New York Times Magazine. By e-mail, E. D. Hirsch Jr., the distinguished literary...

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Good math students use rote memory

Students who excel at math use rote memory to solve simple arithmetic problems, while weak students calculate, concludes a new study, Why Mental Arithmetic Counts, published in the Journal of...

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