#cognitive levels

Can students learn math when we teach them algorithms?

It is a bunch of procedures. That’s how people perceive algorithms are. And they are right. Algorithm has been defined as 1) “step-by-step procedures that are carried out routinely”; 2) “a precisely-defined sequence of rules telling how to produce specified output information from given input information in a finite number of steps”. Its no wonder then that teaching its algorithms is perceived as…