Personal Concerns and Next Steps

This semester I have gained a lot of new insights and ways to understand math in a completely new way. I have been challenged, confused and frusturated a lot this semester because I am being taught to think about math in a totally different way than I have ever been taught. It is diffucult to try and learn something in a completely new way. I know what it feels like to be a student learning a brand new concept. The concepts that have been introduced are important but are still hard to look at in a new way.

Personal Concerns and Next Steps -Blog2

I have always enjoyed doing math and being in math class. This class has definitely been a different view on math and challenging me in different ways. I really like the activities we have been doing in class. Like finding the formulas of a trapezoid and parallelogram by breaking down the shape into simpler shapes. I have never thought of doing it this way before. I have always just memorized formulas and never knew where they came from. Looking at in a different way was very challenging for me, but it made sense. I also liked using the chop strategy for finding polygons. I have never thought of surrounding it with a rectangle and decomposing shapes from it. I really like all the new ideas that we have been learning in class.