Making lessons easier for students may not help them learn better. According to a Canadian study making students struggle with problems by introducing difficulty in the problem will help them perform better in the long run. According to researchers when students have to really think and evaluate what they have to do this desirable difficulty contributes to meaningful learning. When I first started teaching I thought my role as a teacher was to take difficult topics and make them easy said Fred Phillips from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. (Read: Worried about your kid's exam results? Here's what to
