How Can We Change The Way We View Mistakes?

Mistakes help your brain to grow!

Students crumpled a piece of paper and threw it at the board (maybe with some feelings of frustration.) Students retrieved their paper, smoothed it out and traced the creased lines with a coloured pen- this represented the brain growth. Synapses grow in your brain.

We will display the paper to show them the importance of making mistakes.

Mistakes.

You usually think that mistakes are bad, But they actually they help your brain grow.
when you make mistakes, it makes your synopsis fire up, which help brain growth.
For example. Edison created the light bulb, and other cool inventions. But actually his teacher said he was to stupid to learn. But Edison persevered and made 1,000 mistakes. When a reporter asked him about his mistakes, he said they weren't mistakes, they were small steps.

By Alex B

Growth Mindset Splat!

In Nicola's Maths group, we have been thinking about growth mindset. We know that people are not born with a Maths brain and that when we challenge ourselves, our brains grow. In Jo Boaler's Ted Talk, "Believe in you Maths Potential" she says that it is important to see Maths visually. People visualise Maths in different ways. 

We have been looking at Splats and discussing the different ways that we see Maths. Here are some examples:

 

We watched Class Dojo and Maths and did a "Quick Write" about what we learnt. 

By Alex P

By Parker