<p>“But when the #9 ranked student asks me what absolute value means, or when #22 asks me what the formula for area of a circle is”</p>
<p>The way you view people as numbers is kind of icky. How do you know their ranks anyway?
I don’t see the ability to memorize definitions/formulas as having much to do with intelligence (although “absolute value” is kind of self-defining). Knowing the formula offhand is less important than knowing how to derive it.</p>