Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
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Productive Failure, the secret of learning math

FIT FOR FAILURE
The best way to learn math is to learn how to fail productively
Quarz, 10/29/2015
Singapore, the land of many math geniuses, may have discovered the secret to learning mathematics (pdf). It employs a teaching method called productive failure (pdf), pioneered by Manu Kapur, head of the Learning Sciences Lab at the National Institute of Education of Singapore.