Rote learning

By definition, rote learning eschews comprehension, so by itself it is an ineffective tool in mastering any complex subject at an advanced level.

More than ever, school mathematics must include an understanding of how to use technology to arrive meaningfully at solutions to problems instead of endless attention to increasingly outdated computational tedium.

[3]However, advocates of traditional education have criticized the new American standards as slighting learning basic facts and elementary arithmetic, and replacing content with process-based skills.

These people would argue that time is better spent practicing skills rather than in investigations inventing alternatives, or justifying more than one correct answer or method.

This pattern requires that the machine can be modeled as a pure function — always producing same output for same input — and can be formally described as follows: Rote learning was used by Samuel's Checkers on an IBM 701, a milestone in the use of artificial intelligence.