Being curious - Secondary teachers

Being Curious is part of our Developing Mathematical Habits of Mind collection.

In Nurturing Students' Curiosity, we offer you support and advice on how to encourage your students to be curious mathematicians.

All humans are naturally curious, and good mathematicians get excited by new ideas and are keen to explore and investigate them. As teachers, we want to nurture our students' mathematical curiosity so they grow into creative, flexible problem-solvers. One way to nurture this curiosity is by providing the right hook to draw students in.

We hope that the problems below will exploit students' natural curiosity and provoke them to ask good mathematical questions.