Summary & Synthesis

On Tuesday 9-25, in class we talked about constructivism and how it is a way of how kids learn. To take this further we did an activity to help us understand the area of triangles and constructivism by doing the surrounded activity. In this activity we took a piece of construction paper and we cut a rectangle out of it, then we inscribed a triangle with in the rectangle and then cut out the triangle. We then discussed the different observation that we noticed when we took the two scraps of paper and put them on top of the inscribed triangle. I think that this would be a good activity to have a class do to understand the area of triangles, and help them understand the area of triangles. After this activity I now understand how constructivism is entangled in everything that we learn and the we will teach in the future. It is just a matter of how students learn and how the subject is taught.