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Good wonder here @robinbergen . We’ll want to carefully select tasks that use prior knowledge that allow their strategies to bump into new learning/strategies. In your example of the pythagorean theorem have a look at Squares To Triangles 4 day unit. https://learn.makemathmoments.com/task/squares-triangles/