Blog #3 Summary and synthesis

At this point of the year near the end of classes i have looked back over what we have done in class and what i am able to take away from the class and apply into my own future classroom. I believe the biggest piece of information i have gained and will use is not to teach students the regular procedural knowledge they are use to getting. Instead i want to do activities that lead them in the direction that the proceedural steps were developed to do. The students will then be able to see where the "steps" came from and why we do them and why the work. To me this offers kids the chance to understand math instead of just being able to do the tricks they have been taught. Even though i dont plan on teaching math i think this lesson is applicable to a lot of different subjects that i do plan on teaching.