Walking Away from a Mathematics Problem Is OK

Author:
Zachary Champagne The Discovery School, Jacksonville, FL

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Volume 114: Issue 9
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691–695
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2021.0072
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Grade(s) or Audience, Grades PK-2, Math Topic, Geometry, Shapes, Number, Counting & Cardinality, Number & Operations, Rational Numbers

Providing students the autonomy and choice to learn when productive struggle becomes unproductive is a core teaching belief in the author’s classroom. This article tells the story of one student’s ability to know and express when his frustration was too great and how he chose to walk away from his work and return the next day.

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© 2021 by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc.
Page Count:
6
Article Category:
Research Article
Print Publication Date:
01 Sep 2021
Online Publication Date:
Sep 2021
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