Education · FORTUNE
Fortune #12
Good fortune
Repeating one problem type can make the method automatic. Mix two familiar types so you must decide which approach fits each question before solving it.
QUOTE CARD
A quote for you
“ผู้มีการศึกษาคือผู้ที่ผ่านประสบการณ์ชีวิตของตนเองและได้ซึมซับแนวคิดต่างๆ ที่ทำให้เขากลายเป็นตัวแทนของวัฒนธรรมของตน”
— มอร์ติเมอร์ เจ. แอดเลอร์
นักปรัชญาและนักการศึกษาชาวอเมริกัน ผู้สนับสนุนการอ่านเชิงวิเคราะห์
- Person
- Mortimer J. Adler
- Source work
- p. 255
- Source text
- An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
STORY & REFLECTION
When the Problem Does Not Name the Method
Interleaved practice · learning research
When ten problems of one type appear in a row, later questions can feel easy because you already know which method to apply. That fluency helps when first learning a procedure.
Real assessments rarely label the method for you. Reviews of learning research discuss interleaving as practice in choosing an approach, even when the practice feels more difficult.
Difficulty during practice does not by itself mean failure. Ask whether you are getting better at recognizing the problem type. Begin with two kinds you have already studied rather than switching randomly among many subjects.
Alternate those two types. Before solving each question, write one reason for choosing your method. Choosing is the skill that a single block of identical problems may not teach.
Reflection
Purposeful mixing helps you choose a method independently.
A small action today
Alternate two problem types in one practice block.
A question to reflect on
What clue tells you which method this problem needs?