
84: Productive Struggle: Building Confident Problem Solvers
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Productive Struggle is a hot topic in lots of math teacher circles. Do you use it with your students? In this episode we'll cover what research says about productive struggle- why it is important to building confident problem solvers & deep mathematical thinkers!
In this episode we'll chat about:
- how research defines productive struggle
- our role in productive struggle
- building students confidence in math using productive struggle
- proven framework for our PATH to productive struggle in our classrooms!
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