Promoting Thinking Mathematically

Rather than setting our students low level tasks that result in students being good at the routine, mundane and familiar, we need to push students outside their comfort zone and give them things that they cannot do. When faced with this, they are forced to think mathematically.

‘We need more challenge and less instruction, since it is from challenge that one grows in body, mind and spirit.' (Matthew Lipman, 1991)

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