Video: K¹²'s Approach to Learning, Part 6

Avoiding Misconceptions

Part 1: Individualized Learning
Mastery should be possible for everyone

Part 2: Tried and True
Research based methods for learning without limits

Part 3: What They Really Need to Know
Building on a solid foundation

Part 4: Practice vs. Talent
Experts are made, not born

Part 5: Big Ideas
The "Big Ideas" will set them free

Part 6: Avoiding Misconceptions
Fractions and other train wrecks
 

Fractions and Other Train Wrecks

Summary:   One other important piece we bring to bear when helping kids master the Big Ideas is a clear understanding of what's hard for kids. In certain subjects there is good research on kids' misconceptions—careful survey work that looks closely at how kids learn and what's really hard for them, and, ideally, ways to break these misconceptions.

This video describes how our curriculum is different, in several ways: we actually look at the research on misconceptions to help us know where to spend more time, and then we work to invest our most compelling content in these critical but tricky areas, to give your children the best possible chance to understand them.

That's what K¹² does better than anyone—we use the right research, the right visuals, the right interactions, and the right use of technology to make key learning really come alive for kids.

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