try-first-tell-later

Structure educational content using try-first-tell-later pedagogy where students predict, attempt, or reflect before receiving explanations. Creates active learning through cognitive engagement and variation theory's contrast patterns. Use when writing educational materials, designing exercises, creating lecture notes, structuring tutorials, writing teaching examples with LaTeX/Beamer, developing problem sets, or when user mentions try-first, predict-first, productive failure, Socratic method, q