Personal Concerns and Next Steps

My personal concern created by this class is that I would like to learn more about how to teach all areas of math and multiple ways of doing this. I think as a class we all understand the importance of constructivist teaching and about having students understand math concepts and the reasons behind the formulas. Now that we understand this, I would like to learn more about all of the different areas in math and how to teach the underlying methods behind these formulas. I understand this may not be possible and we are learning new methods everyday about different areas, but I think we still have a long way to go. Knowing that for some of us this may be the last semester we have to learn better ways to teach then we were taught, I think we need to spend all the time we can on learning about all the topics in math. I have been so shocked already about how many areas in math I am not as knowledgeable about as I thought and how math methods can be taught in so many different ways. I think it would be beneficial to everyone in class if we spend as much time we can during each math class covering different areas in math and if Dr. Reins would share his great ideas about how to teach these to students so that they really understand each of the methods they are being taught.