Top Highlights

• Jules Verne once said, “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make because little by little they lead us to the truth.”
• Calculators can rob us of the joy of arriving independently at an answer from our own mental efforts by eliminating the process and reducing it to an input and output of values.
• Based on observations, they concluded that teachers who utilized multi-dimensional problems were more likely to have students with a growth mindset.
• One of the main difficulties students face while learning math is struggling to apply it practically in their daily lives.
• One way to get around this is to remember that x% of y = y% of x. For example, 68% of 25 = 25% of 68 = 68/4 = 17.