Monday, April 6, 2009

New Insights and Their Implications

New Insights and Their Implications - What did you learn from your peers, from the instructor, and/or the readings, about elementary school students, and/or about yourself, and the teaching and learning of math and what are their implications to teaching and learning mathematics?

During the past month in class I was amazed on the many different tools that can be used to help students learn fractions. I really enjoyed learning how to incorporate models into the classroom as well as experimenting with them myself. I thought the interactive sites on the web were outstanding and look forward to using them in the near future. I have always enjoyed fractions, but I do realize they may be difficult for some to understand so with the help of what we have learned in class as well as the models I believe I can now more effectively teach fractions. I look forward to learning more about math during the last month of class and can't wait to adapt this information to my own classroom.