Please explain to me how it is not evident to programmers that this is how we program.. we cannot hold more than seven items at a time. We cannot fracture. As Miller mentioned, 2 3 digit numbers are outside t capacity, but if you multiply them by paper w, if we free your memory, we can let the brain focus on the v
If you assign the memory function to a diagram, you can let your brain concentrate on the manipulation function.
Once we codify, we no longer have to keep the information in memory, for example :
This hurts my brain
There are five roads in Brown County.
One runs from Abbeville to Brownsville by way of Clinton.
One runs from Clinton to Derbyshire by way of Fremont.
One runs from Fremont to Brownsville by way of Abbieville.
That's all the roads in Brown County, and all the roads in and out of those towns.
Which towns have roads connecting them directly to three other towns?
Which towns have roads connecting them directly to only two other towns?
How many towns must you pass through to get from Brownsville to Derbyshire?
But if we diagram it to a map, all of this makes sense.
"The learning of numbers and language must be subordinated ...
Visual understanding is the essential and only valid means of teaching how to judge things correctly."
~ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Pestalozzi was the guy who designed the educational system in which Einstein, the most extraordinary visualization of his time, was born q