• @theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    …you guys had to memorize the pepe table?!??? Why? The point of the pepe table is so that you wouldn’t have to memorize its contents!

    • @BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
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      373 months ago

      A steadily growing portion of American education is about rote memorization instead of critical thinking because we tied testing to funding and true/false is easier to grade

    • @passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world
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      23 months ago

      Like not memorize the table but memorize the atomic numbers and valence electrons? Just memorize the alkali earth metals or the halogens? I don’t see how you wouldn’t be forced to memorize the table in some way

      • @theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
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        43 months ago

        Its gonna be a complicated concept so please hold my hands! You learn how to read it (we were taught in primary school) and you look at it when you need info off it?

        Like… I am studying bioengineering (bachelor, there is immeasurable amount of chem and the lack of knowing the atomic number of plutonium have yet to cost me my balls!