Summary and Synthesis

Since my last blog I have learned alot about our new math methods and we should teach them to our future students. I have also learned alot about the different kinds of math standards that we are expected to tie into our curriculum. It is a little confusing with all the standards, and i should tie them all into my curriculum. How do i decide whether or not to use the National, State, or the NCTM's standards. I am very focused on my future and all of these standards are a little imtimidating. It is very helpful though to talk about standards and how to appropriately use them.

We also have been talking about similar shapes. I am going to be honest with you, I was so lost at first, but once figured out the concept of similar shapes the concept was fairly easy to understand. If we were to increase the scale factor by 2, all we would have to do is multiply the variable by 2 squared. The activity that we did in class would be very helpful to use in our classrooms. They are given situations, in which they are able to solve and discover their answers. They are also given a chance to explore and investigate their answers, so hopefully this learning process would eventually go into their long term memory and later in life they can make connections through this activity.