Is memorisation a good strategy for learning mathematics?

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Fewer 15-year-olds in East Asian countries reported that they use memorisation than did 15‑year‑olds in some of the English-speaking countries to whom they are often compared. In no PISA-participating education system did boys report more intensive use of memorisation than girls when learning mathematics. Memorisation as a learning strategy may work with easy problems, but it is unlikely to be effective if it is the only strategy used when confronted with complex mathematics problems.

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Year of publication:	2016
Institutions:	OECD (issuing body)
Publisher:	Paris : OECD Publishing
Subject:	Theorie \| Theory \| Lernende Organisation \| Learning organization \| Lernprozess \| Learning process \| Mathematik \| Mathematics \| Lernen \| Learning