Summary and Synthesis

I have found as the course goes on, that I am remind myself time and time again that the way I originally thought teaching math or the way math was taught to me is not very beneficial. The course has taught me that there needs to be more analysis and time taken in math by the educator as well as the student. I was used to being given the right way to do a problem and then I was supposed to mimic that way within each related problem. The course has taught me that it is necessary for the student to know why they are using the formulas or why the formulas are the way they are. This is why I also have learned some activities that practice this idea, such as the more recent one where we were to develop a formula for a given shape.