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Reading? Here in the US the teachers do not believe in drilling. They say “drill to kill” and deny the possibility that students cannot learn in one repetition. Of course, this is communist, teaching college BS, but it is what they teach. I taught typing, among other things. If you didn’t drill a whole lot, the typing motions would not improve to automaticity. With 10 finger typing you need automaticity in movement and it does not come from looking at the keyboard and piecing out with less than ten fingers. As in everything else, practice made perfect.
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I think you summed this up in one word: automaticity. We got to bolster their automaticity so that they don’t expend their cognitive energy on thinking how to do
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The only way to get to automaticity is to drill, drill, and more drill. I get that about learning kanji and it applies to mathematics also in the grammar school levels. In Japan, I got to see a soraban school at work and it is drill and more drill but the kids knew how to use mental soraban by the time they were finished. Yep, automaticity!
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