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as in:
- student may be perfectly able to follow the procedure of doing, idk, finding an axis intersection
- ...but they are missing the context of what a graph is, what a slope is, how to solve equations at all, are hazy on the equal sign, and are out of practice w/ addition of two-digit numbers, so it's actually completely impossible for them to find an axis intersection, as well as to understand why they'd want to
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this is like the opposite of resilience/adaptivity (~ aim of learning may be increased robustness, resilience or adaptivity): you're on a tiny island (if even) with cliffs on all sides; you have no cards up your sleeve.