Productive Struggle
The neuroscience
Group 1
3 yards
Specific and varied practice of motor skill 1978 Booth & Kerr
The bean bag experiment
Group 2
2 yards & 4 yards
TEST
3 yards
Significantly outperformed group 1
How do we teach?
How do we learn?
Creative Reasoning
Learning mathematics without a suggested solution method: Durable effects on performance and brain activity 2015 Wirebring et al.
Algorithmic
Creative Reasoning
Learning mathematics without a suggested solution method: Durable effects on performance and brain activity 2015 Wirebring et al.
Algorithmic
What if mathematics could be taught the way the brain learns?
Perception-Action
Schema Building
Problem Solving &
Creative Ideation
Academic
Discourse
Episodic
Experiential
Knowledge
Perception-Action
Schema Building
Problem Solving &
Creative Ideation
Academic
Discourse
Episodic
Experiential
Knowledge
Activities That Elicit Productive Struggle
Activities That Elicit Productive Struggle
Activities That Elicit Productive Struggle
Activities That Elicit Productive Struggle
The old way of teaching math was to make you do it like a machine...
The new way is to understand it so you can build the machines!
Productive Struggle
By Nigel Nisbet
Productive Struggle
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