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Originally Posted by Rathji
Bottom line is reading is about memorization,
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Bottom line is, well, that's wrong. Here, a test! Read this:
The hissenfroth in my dining room broke down and I needed a phartinpot wrench and a bottle of Ignobretious gel to fix it.
Now, if you can read that, and reading is about memorization, when did you memorize the words hissenfroth, phartinpot and Ignobretious? You never did, because I made 'em up. But you could read them, right? Because you sounded them out intuitively, because you know how to read.
They use nonsense words and tests like that to teach kids how to read all the time. You just can't memorize the English language, you have to know how to actually read. There are some people that have memorized or just know a ton of words on sight and it looks like they are reading, but they have just brutal comprehension skills.
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when you add 4 + 3 there is some other method you have for coming up with the answer other than pulling it from your memory. Oh wait, I guess you could count on your fingers, that would make so much more sense.
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Nothing wrong with counting on your fingers. That's actually doing the arithmetic. You and I know it because we actually did it. We weren't just told a million times that 4+3=7. If that's how we learned it (by memorizing it through repetition) we'd get 4+3 everytime, but 4+4 might be a headscratcher.