Security News > 2021 > May > Teaching Cybersecurity to Children

Rote learning is often defined as the memorization of information based on repetition, it can also be called learning by "Sitting next to Nellie".

Less obvious is that learning to add, subtract, multiply and divide are also "Learning by rote" this time however it's not the facts in the tables but the rules by which you do the operations.

Education kind of starts badly for most, because they do not have the skills for it, and we are uncertain as to how to teach them and just cross our fingers and hope students learn it by osmosis or similar.

Put simply Education is learning in a very different way, where you are presented with information often in the writen form, you read it, analyze it and draw conclusions from it, based on earlier learning.

For instance in theory polynomials should be no harder to understand than writing down large numbers, but few students in their teens appear to be able to grasp the fact, and it can be more painfull than watching five year olds learning how to write large numbers.

Knowing polynomials is a prerequisite for learning how to work effectively in other number bases and how to learn more advanced mathmatics such as series and certain forms of matrix usage.

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