Im having flashbacks to like an entire year of high school in which every two weeks, we were given arbitrary and confusing instructions to essentially reformat an equation, followed by a test which I would bomb because they wanted me to reformat the equations MORE, followed immediately by the next class lesson being like "okay here's why we needed that shit reformatted, here is a new equation to plug it all into that makes it very obvious if you did last weeks exercises correctly"
literally just getting C's and D's back every second Monday, and then 20 minutes later they actually explain what the fuck we were doing and now I know how to do last Friday's test
Even for high school that's really bad teaching. I know one issue I see is students will sometimes do a manipulation they know without thinking about what goal they need to reach. This seems like it would actively feed that impulse.
Im having flashbacks to like an entire year of high school in which every two weeks, we were given arbitrary and confusing instructions to essentially reformat an equation, followed by a test which I would bomb because they wanted me to reformat the equations MORE, followed immediately by the next class lesson being like "okay here's why we needed that shit reformatted, here is a new equation to plug it all into that makes it very obvious if you did last weeks exercises correctly"
literally just getting C's and D's back every second Monday, and then 20 minutes later they actually explain what the fuck we were doing and now I know how to do last Friday's test
Even for high school that's really bad teaching. I know one issue I see is students will sometimes do a manipulation they know without thinking about what goal they need to reach. This seems like it would actively feed that impulse.