“Learning to think a problem through can be hard work—and that is exactly what makes it fun.”
—Denise Gaskins
CREDITS: Today’s quote is from my book Let’s Play Math: How Families Can Learn Math Together—And Enjoy It. Background photo courtesy of Chris_Parfitt via Flickr (CC BY 2.0, text added).
Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math 
I think I’d like this quotation even better without having the thinker “get the solution.”
All too often I hear about/from students who were engaged in meaningful, purposeful, organized thinking, but then these same students will lament not “getting the solution,” and declare that their [quality] thinking time was wasted as a result.
I prefer to believe that the time was well-spent: Final answer, partial answer, or just a collection of approaches that didn’t pan out. Purposeful work is good!
So true! And just last week I wrote the post about math with many right answers. How easily I fall back into an old-school mindset…
Revised. Better now?
Yes!