Challenging misconceptions

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How to ensure concepts are fully understood

Learning is a liminal process, with students often taking steps backwards as well as forwards, before they achieve conceptual mastery. So we need to revisit and review these ideas in a range of contexts, to ensure they’ve fully (and securely) understood them. 

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