Is one lesson a week enough?

The science of skill Is one lessona week enough? The forgetting curve In the 1880s, psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus mapped how quickly we lose new information when we don’t revisit it: memory drops steeply at first, then flattens out. His work was replicated with modern methods by Murre and Dros in 2015, and the pattern holds up remarkably well. Within a day, roughly two-thirds of newly learned material is gone. By day six, only about a quarter is left. 25% of what your child learns is roughly all that’s left six days later — if they don’t touch a racquet in ...read more

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