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10xDevyesterday at 7:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

Funny, you used probably the most useless form of benchmarking used on people as an example of measuring "competency" in the real world.


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doctorpanglossyesterday at 7:48 PM

A lot of the insights of math come from knowing how to do things efficiently. That’s why the tests are timed. I don’t know, this is pretty basic pedagogy that you are choosing to grief.

simianwordsyesterday at 7:32 PM

are you in favour of children using calculators in exams?

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