After discussing the differences and similarities of instrumental and relational learning, I still stand strong on my point of relational understanding. However, I do feel that instrumental learning has good points to it as well. Time is an important factor to making instrumental a strong point, while long term success allows relational understanding to come out on top.
My view is that both understandings should be combined in order to have a successful classroom. Students should be able to either learn the background before going into the step by step process of learning, but also be able to go the other way around. Teaching this way allows for a variety of different students to have their needs met.
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