How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses:
School had never been challenging for her. She sat in rows with the other students while teachers told the kids what they needed to know. It wasn’t hard to repeat it back, and she got good grades without thinking too much. As she headed into fifth grade, she assumed she was in for more of the same—lectures, memorization, and busy work.
One day Juárez Correa went to his whiteboard and wrote “1 = 1.00.” Normally, at this point, he would start explaining the concept of fractions and decimals. Instead he just wrote “1/2 = ?” and “1/4 = ?”
“Think about that for a second,” he said, and walked out of the room.
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