Had a great time visiting @will_ngiam and the Awh / Vogel lab in Chicago this week, discussing about #chunking and #pointers in #workingmemory. #chunking is such a well known effect in cognitive psychology, but it's underlying mechanisms are still puzzling...

Thanks to @will_ngiam for making it possible, it's a very impressive lab with very nice people!

« In #mathematics #education, #chunking is an elementary approach for solving simple #division.

Compared to the #ShortDivision and #LongDivision methods that are traditionally taught, #chunking may seem strange, unsystematic, and arbitrary. However, it is argued that #chunking […] gives a better introduction to #division, in part because the focus is […] on the whole #calculation and its meaning, rather than just rules for generating successive digits. »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(division)