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Fouché, Jaunine; Crowley, Joel – Educational Leadership, 2017
Elementary students at the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania, don't just learn knowledge and skills; they put it to work. The school's Innovation Lab for grades K-4 offers students hands-on opportunities to use design thinking to solve problems. In this article, two of the school's educators describe how 2nd graders used design…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Experiential Learning, Problem Solving, Grade 2
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Wheatley, Grayson H. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1992
Discusses the limitations in the explain-practice and active learning methods of teaching mathematics. Proposes that problem-centered learning is a teaching method that encourages student reflection, and presents examples demonstrating that encouraging reflection results in greater mathematics achievement. (MDH)
Descriptors: Computation, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking