Summary and Synthesis

Throughout the semester we have been learning a lot of different concepts and how to apply them into the classroom. This class has provided different hands on activities both individually and as group work. We are being taught how to break questions down, how to answer our own questions, and we are just being told why to use a certain procedure, but we are being taught why it is important and how it actually works. When working with fractions in class, we were able to learn why you use certain formulas and how to use visuals to come to an answer. In the past, I have always just been given a formula, and than told to use it. Never was I ever told why or how this formula actually produced the correct answer. Sometimes I become irritated with myself when it comes to math, I wish I was able to produce an answer faster and with more confidence. I hope to have that confidence by the end of the semester.