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With that in mind, what do you think is the acceptable way to get students out of the answer-getting mentality?

• ghshephard 12y ago
  I think what the professor did was exactly correct, have them experience something new mathematically, but give them the heads up that they weren't (likely) to be solving it, as it's a new pattern they hadn't recognized before.
  • Kalium 12y ago
    I wonder how well things are likely to work if you give students explicit license to not try in an effort to keep them from feeling failure.
  • Retra 12y ago
    Not knowing is the important part. If you know the question is unsolved, you already have an 'answer' for it: it's 'unsolved.'