This PDF file presents a chapter of Annual Perspectives in Mathematics 2014: Using Research to Improve Instruction in a downloadable file that preserves the design and layout of the book while allowing users to search and print selected pages.

Chapter 7: “Creating a Classroom Culture That Encourages Students to Persist on Cognitively Demanding Tasks.” Doug Clarke, Anne Roche (Australian Catholic University), Peter Sullivan, and Jill Cheeseman (Monash University, Australia) discuss the Encouraging Persistence Maintaining Challenge Project (EPMC), which researches the kinds of teacher practices that can encourage students to persist while working on challenging mathematics tasks. They include a detailed scenario of a Division with Remainders lesson, with reflections on teacher decision-making and an appendix of the problems used.

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