Productive Struggle Posters and Slides

Looking for resources to support productive struggle? This set of printable posters and digital slides features thoughtful, open-ended questions to support students as they persevere through challenging problems and algorithms.

This resource features 18 questions that are:

• Reflective To help students learn to ask themselves these questions on independent work and assessments.
• Actionable Featuring tangible, concrete ways to take action when solving challenging problems.
• Adaptable The open-ended nature of each question makes them perfect to use as a yearlong resource, across all math concepts.

Guide your students to persevere all school year, without planning a single thing!

A Two-in-One Resource to Support Productive Struggle:

Printable Posters
Designed in a Google Slides format and ready for you to print…or edit! You can change any font, wording, or colors just as you’d like. Each poster is 10.75″ by 3.75″ to save space on classroom walls, while remaining easy to read from a distance.

Digital Slides
Coordinating slides feature the same questions, in a format you can copy and paste into any presentation. These slides were designed to be used to open lessons with a goal or learning target as you share strategies to support productive struggle in new, tangible ways with your students.

Please check out the preview for an in-depth look at this resource!