The end of the school year is almost here. Many students alike are excited for the summer break to be at home, to relax, to hang out with friends, or to work those extra shifts. It is extremely exciting to occur.
Many students - especially I had this issue in K-8 - would forget everything I learn and forget the majority of it and I wouldn’t care that I lost all this important knowledge. A majority of the new math skills I learned and some of the other classwork that I had been practicing all year would seemingly be gone in an instant.
Then the next school year comes around and sitting in class, you would remember you learned this last year, but you couldn’t remember at all how to solve this or what was the context surrounding this.
Most of the knowledge we learn easily gets forgotten due to it only staying in the short term memory that has very limited room. So once students stop repeating and using that information, it tends to get lost and forgotten. Then the students get antsy and annoyed when teachers re-teach the same information that the students think they know, but they most likely don’t.
Many people have come up with different ideas, but none of them have been enacted and I am not sure they will since most people don’t want to put forth the change into schools. This could be a fear of changing what is already comfortable and works for the most part or there could be no long-term solutions that would stop this forgetting of memory.
I think it is sad when I see a topic that I know I have studied before; but when I attempt to remember or solve the math problem, I freeze because I forgot how to. Sometimes, I wish all the information that I ever learned in school can stay there permanently. All the teachers that have helped me and taught me life experiences and knowledge are all easily lost to time.
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