project based learning

I'm starting to get a better grasp on project-based learning. Now that we have taken the midterm and have seen a few more groups present, I'm starting to get used to the way this class is set up. I'm starting to appreciate the way we are learning the material, but it's still hard to bring down my level of thinking so I can see if from a child's perspective and that is something I definitely need to work on. However, I think this will be easier when I'm in a classroom and have my student's experience to base my instruction on. I can try to come up with different ways to do a problem and come up with ways that children would look at this problem but it's harder when you don't have an actual classroom to work with. Of course there are our peers but our college peers don't interact and don't do math like elementary children would. I've never had experience in an elementary math classroom, but those videos we watched today about CGI were helpful and fun to watch. I'm gaining an appreciation for math as this class is progressing, and I'm getting more out of this class than I have from others.