I REFER to the report in The Star (“Get students to love Maths, teachers told”, Aug 13), where Education Director-General Datuk Abdul Rafie Mahat said teachers must move away from the old school of teaching Mathematics by getting students to memorise multiplication tables and mathematical formulae. “Now we want students to understand what they are learning,” he said.
Indeed, mathematics is more than memorising facts. By just memorising formulae and not understanding the concepts, one cannot solve mathematical problems.