Growth Mindset
Understand the concept of a growth mindset — that abilities and intelligence can grow with effort, practice, and good strategies — as opposed to a fixed mindset where you believe you're either good at something or you're not
Typical age: 7–9 years
“When your child finds something difficult like learning to ride a bike or mastering times tables, do they say 'I can't do it YET' rather than 'I'm just not good at this'?”
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- Vocabulary: resilience and selfREQUIRED
The growth mindset concept requires understanding the vocabulary pair 'growth mindset' vs 'fixed mindset'
- Learning from MistakesREQUIRED
Growth mindset builds on understanding mistakes as learning opportunities
- Making Sense of Problems
Growth mindset understanding (SEL) is grounded in the concrete experience of persevering through mathematical problems — the abstract principle is made real through mathematics