Inquiry-based learning

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Teachers should focus on the limits of our knowledge, so students don't get right or wrong answers, but rather to new questions they may bring them closers to what may know to be true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquiry-based_learning#

Under consideration Suggested by: jonas (01 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 02 Feb, '23 • Comments: 2

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19 Jun, '22
Badrah
Along with the work of the amazing mathematician and educator (but unfortunately forgotten) George Polya.

• A rare video of one of his lectures showing his teaching and problem solving approach in action:
https://youtu.be/h0gbw-Ur_do

• His most famous and most simple book on problem solving and inquiry-based teaching/learning
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192221.How_to_Solve_It
The book is two parts, one for the teacher and one for the student.
19 Jun, '22
Badrah
From Polya's book:
"A great discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest; but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of discovery.

Such experiences at a susceptible age may create a taste for mental work and leave their imprint on mind and character for a lifetime.

Thus, a teacher of mathematics has a great opportunity. If he fills his allotted time with drilling his students in routine operations he kills their interest, hampers their intellectual development, and misuses his opportunity.

But if he challenges the curiosity of his students by setting them problems proportionate to their knowledge, and helps them to solve their problems with stimulating questions, he may give them a taste for, and some means of, independent thinking."