Thoughts on the manual

Don’t make every part of the learning experience required for everybody.

• What is the general context for the task?

I often wondered what would happen if a teacher could really get inside the student’s head. To accomplish this, I played games with my students, had them talk out loud before they made a move and after I made mine, and wrote down their thoughts. To my amazement, I was soon seeing problems that I never imagined they possessed.