Response to “Mathematics, Computation, and Psychic Intellige

According to him, math in elementary school should impose less of the “drill-to-death” method. Children at that stage in life have an innate learning process which Moise refers to as “psychic intelligence”. While observing a child, one may notice that they are like blank slates, running around, using all of their senses to soak up anything foreign to them. They are products of their environment. They want to know who, what, when, where, and why all of the time. Math classes at that level begin to discourage that uninhibited curiosity by teaching students fixed steps to reach a specific solution. All of the sudden, much like some parents, teachers begin to answer children’s cries of “but why?” simply with “because”. As the student prog

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