This activity develops students’ resilience by:
- encouraging adaptation, immediate problem solving, and decision making (for example, the student’s plan is to find an operation for 28, but the right fish is on the other side of the lake, while the one fish for 35 is very close and can be fished out easily and quickly, so they have to decide immediately which one to choose)
- developing the ability to cope with failure at both the individual and group levels (individual failure may occur, for example, if the student does not fish quickly and skilfully, or catches a fish that already has the been matched, or forgets the operation by the time they return to their team group failure may occur if the task is not completed within the given time or if there are incorrect pairings on the worksheet)
- develops self-control, perseverance, emotion regulation, and communication, because students must continue the activity even when they feel they are going to lose or fail
- strengthens social coping and social support, because in case of failure (either individual or group), students can only achieve success if they support and help each other emotionally
- develops the ability to find alternative solutions to achieve success – open mindset – (for example, during a higher difficult level, the group has an opportunity to change the order of the fishing students according to who is good at what – memory, speed, etc.)