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

Drill and kill is somewhat what it sounds like. It's where you do lots and lots of repetition (drill), and this is allegedly supposed to "kill" your interest in the subject rather than merely exercising your skills to greater and greater fluency.

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SW-User

Anyone who "drills" math is doing it wrong.

33person · 26-30, M

@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.

SW-User

@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.