That is, without an engaging and curiosity-positive environment, learners' Curiosity in the classroom can appear to dissipate with schooling.
By creating patterns, new knowledge such as vocabulary, narrative structures, or classroom processes can be more readily encoded and retrieved in Long-term Memory while promoting engagement.
Gallery walks are also an interactive way to bring inquiry into the classroom, particularly as students begin to create their own gallery walks.
Then they can design activities that encourage students to apply math in contexts outside of the math classroom.
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