PART A: Which statement identifies the central idea of the text?

A.

Math is best taught using discovery-based learning as people are more likely to fail in math.

B.

Allowing and encouraging people to fail helps them to make sense of what they are learning.

C.

Although people can learn even when they fail at least once, they are still negatively affected by their failure.

D.

Younger people learn better through hands-on activities that can result in failure, while adults learn better through risk-free lectures.

B. Allowing and encouraging people to fail helps them to make sense of what they are learning.

Explanation:

Remember, we are reminded of the story of Thomas Edison the great scientist who failed many times, learnt from his failures, and then discovered a new invention. The article employs educators especially to have a mental shift about their negative view of failure

Thus, the central idea of the article is that we accept failure, as this would lead to new discoveries and inventions.

c. barbarians with unexpected intelligence  

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).