Here are a couple of things I’m digging into: Responsive Math Teaching: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/academics/research/responsive-math-teaching Teaching Through Problem Solving: https://lessonresearch.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Characteristics-of-Japanese-Mathematics-Lessons-2.pdf . . .
Check this out! Students were randomly assigned to experience 1 of 2 conditions: Productive Failure (PF), in which students collaboratively solved complex problems without any instructional support or scaffolds; or Direct Instruction (DI), in which the teacher provided strong instructional support, scaffolding, and feedback. Findings showed that although PF students generated pictorial representations and methods for solving […]