💥 Problem-based learning (≃inquiry-based learning) vs. direct instruction (≃explicit teaching) 🧠 Very interesting article by Indonesian academics published in Education Sciences mdpi.com/2227-7102/15/12/163… cited by carlhendrick.substack.com/p/…. 👉 Students with a strong background in mathematics benefit much more from inquiry-based learning (A1B1) than students who are weak in mathematics (A2B1). 👉 Students with a weak background in mathematics benefit more from direct teaching (A2B2) than students who are strong in mathematics (A1B2). 🌼 Teaching through inquiry-based learning all the time in elementary school is not effective, especially for vulnerable students. 🌼 As academic difficulties are concentrated in the most socially vulnerable groups, the question for our school is simple: is our teaching method, under the pretext of good intentions, resolutely middle-class and deliberately exclusive to the working class?