What's your opinion on "drill and kill" math homework?

@SW-User I get that now. I didn't then. No math teacher ever fired me up.

@33person My linear algebra prof had a great system. We'd get weekly "exams" that were much more difficult than the real exam, but we were allowed to "cheat" and talk to each other to try to collectively solve them.

That way, when the real exam came round it was easy by comparison to what we had been doing, and everyone did extremely well.

@SW-User That's a great approach on more than one level.

@SW-User Is there any value in being able to solve equations more quickly due to having done it repeatedly? Let's assume it's already given that the properties of equality are well understood.

@33person There's more value in intuitively understanding what you're doing. Math is not about memorizing stuff, or not a lot of stuff anyway.

I'm very good at working with small integers because I did it so much in linear algebra that it was eventually faster to do in my head than with a calculator, but there's not really that much value in me being able to do that.

@Strawberrry Yes, it can. So what do you think of the question?

@MethDozer I agree.

@33person It loses any value after that point though.

@MethDozer There are always more techniques to get good at as you go further in math. For example, if you're trying to prove something, you have to have worked with all the theorems enough so that when you prove something in chapter 7, you remember to invoke some random theorem in chapter 3 when convenient.