Ready, Set, Launch!—The Engineering Cycle for Productive Struggle

2021 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-124
Author(s):  
Christine Taylor ◽  
Jean S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Productive Struggle

We implemented a STEM task that highlights the engineering cycle and engages students in productive struggle. Students problem solved in productive ways and saw tangible benefits of revising their work to achieve mathematical goals.

Supporting Opportunities for Productive Struggle: Implications for Planning Mathematics Lessons

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 454-457
Author(s):  
Drew Polly
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Productive Struggle

This department publishes brief news articles, announcements, and guest editorials on current mathematics education issues that stimulate the interest of TCM readers and cause them to think about an issue or consider a specific viewpoint about some aspect of mathematics education.

Build me—if you can

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 394-397
Author(s):  
Lisa Poling
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary School Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Productive Struggle

In this month's problem scenario, students engage in productive struggle to explore the part-whole fraction relationship by building triangles represented with pattern blocks. Each month, elementary school teachers receive a problem along with suggested instructional notes. Teachers are asked to use the problem in their own classrooms and report solutions, strategies, reflections, and misconceptions to the journal audience.

Supporting Productive Struggle with Communication Moves

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Freeburn ◽  
Fran Arbaugh
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Mathematical Teaching ◽  
Productive Struggle

Read about ways to determine how your students are thinking, and then implement NCTM's mathematical teaching practices as students work on a task.

Productive Struggle

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 183
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Understanding ◽  
Student Questioning ◽  
Productive Struggle

From a teaching perspective, witnessing students struggle mathematically can be distressing because all teachers want their students to be successful. However, this struggle can ultimately lead to success when the teacher facilitates learning in the classroom in a manner that allows for think-time, teacher and student questioning, and collaboration. The act of struggling productively, as outlined in the following four articles, shows examples of how students are able to take ownership of mathematical understanding through this struggling process and ultimately have a lasting understanding because of the adversity. The articles also highlight steps that teachers need to take to ensure that this struggle is in fact productive and not arduous. Productive struggle in the classroom is equal parts teacher and student; when each role is clearly defined and enacted, students have a deeper understanding of mathematics and feel a sense of accomplishment that the understanding is in fact their own.

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