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Miller’s (Adjusted) Law
I look at my phone number differently today.
—High School Student
Miller’s magical-number-seven Law is probably the most important classroom imperative that educators never heard of. It’s not unusual that teachers would have missed Miller in the context of pedagogy or child discipline. However, scientific principles outlined in it make the Magical-Number-Seven paper an essential read for all classroom instruction and lesson planning. Miller and classroom instruction might, at first glance, appear to be strange conceptual bed-fellows, but they are inextricably conjoined in a world that is drowning in information while staggering under the pace of change (74). Miller’s work was not concerned with either teacher preparation ...
