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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MethDozer · M

I think.learning times tables and rote learning is good for basic.arithmetic. Better than this convoluted back tracking being taught in common core.

Personally I found the more we learned the equations the more they started to explain themselves.

33person · 26-30, M

@MethDozer I agree.

MethDozer · M

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

33person · 26-30, M

@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.