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Posted On: October 30th 2026, 10:52 pm
Here’s the real story.
Just adding more explicit instruction into your math classroom isn’t what your students need.
They need opportunities to think.
They need opportunities to make mistakes, reflect and correct.
They need to learn how to find problems, not just solve them.
AND they need clear, modeled instruction that makes thinking visible and that works with their working memory, not against it.
Do we need explicit instruction based on what we know about how the brain works? Yes.
Do we need classrooms that make math about more than being useful? Also Yes.
Because, at the end of the day, we have to ask ourselves: what are we here for?
What we need is a responsive math classroom. This is what I teach inside The Responsive Math Studio.
Comment STUDIO to get the link for my next FREE training (and I’ll throw in my FREE Start Up guide!)
Just adding more explicit instruction into your math classroom isn’t what your students need.
They need opportunities to think.
They need opportunities to make mistakes, reflect and correct.
They need to learn how to find problems, not just solve them.
AND they need clear, modeled instruction that makes thinking visible and that works with their working memory, not against it.
Do we need explicit instruction based on what we know about how the brain works? Yes.
Do we need classrooms that make math about more than being useful? Also Yes.
Because, at the end of the day, we have to ask ourselves: what are we here for?
What we need is a responsive math classroom. This is what I teach inside The Responsive Math Studio.
Comment STUDIO to get the link for my next FREE training (and I’ll throw in my FREE Start Up guide!)
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