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

by Peter Liljedahl

Of all of the students we interviewed who used mimicking as a strategy to complete the homework on their own, less than 20% were even willing to move beyond this strategy when the examples ran out, and less than half of those were able to answer questions for which an analog did not exist in their notes or the textbook.