Douglas_Knight comments on Open thread, Nov. 17 - Nov. 23, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 19 November 2014 09:11:04PM 0 points [-]

You should go on to more advanced topics without being fluent in less advanced topics. You can always later go back to the exercises that stumped you. The typical student taking calculus without being fluent in adding fractions is a mistake, but that don't over-correct that mistake.