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> Your system would have him spending 33x as much effort maintaining that knowledge as what we're currently doing. A factor of 33 is worth some bookkeeping on my part.

I will grant you that. We only used this strategy for the times tables up to 12x12, which has a finite set of cards (144 if I remember my facts correctly :) ).

If I wanted to do an ever growing set, I might consider this method.

> And, according to the research, long-term retention is worse.

Can you point me at some good research on this area? I believe you, I'd just like to read more, as someone who is interested in this sort of thing.



In the blog post I point to http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition which includes lots of links to research on various aspects of this topic.




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