How ‘Productive Failure’ In Math Class Helps Make Lessons Stick | MindShift | KQED News

Originally published at: http://eduk8.me/2016/05/productive-failure-math-class-helps-make-lessons-stick-mindshift-kqed-news/
Learning from failure has become a popular idea in education recently, partly because it feels like common sense to many people. In a general way, the idea of “picking yourself up after a fall” has long existed in American culture as in many other parts of the world. Teachers are hoping that if they can…