Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series)

by Peter Liljedahl

if the challenge of the activity far exceeds a person’s ability, they are likely to experience a feeling of frustration. Conversely, if their ability far exceeds the challenge, they are likely to experience boredom. When there is a balance in this system, a state of what Csíkszentmihályi refers to as flow is created