Summary and Synthesis

I have found as the course goes on, that I am remind myself time and time again that the way I originally thought teaching math or the way math was taught to me is not very beneficial. The course has taught me that there needs to be more analysis and time taken in math by the educator as well as the student. I was used to being given the right way to do a problem and then I was supposed to mimic that way within each related problem. The course has taught me that it is necessary for the student to know why they are using the formulas or why the formulas are the way they are. This is why I also have learned some activities that practice this idea, such as the more recent one where we were to develop a formula for a given shape.

Personal Concerns and Next Steps

This class made me struggle a lot at first. I feel I am still trying to grasp some ideas in this class though but not as bad as at first. This new teaching style is new to us and it is hard to take something in one semester when we have been taught pratically the exact opposite our entire lives. I think that this is a good teaching method from the expierience that I have had but yet I can not wrap my head around it completely. I might know and understand more than I give myself credit for because I thought I had gotten a C on the test but really I got an A. My personal concern is that after this semester this new teaching method will be difficult to take on or escape my mind on how to do it. My step is to absorb as much information from class and find other ways after this semester to keep the teaching method fresh in my mind and also able to use it.