Summary and Synthesis

To be honest at the start of this class I was very skeptical about the methods that Dr. R was teaching us. I wondered to myself how would I ever be able to teach in a manner that I had never learned myself? Throughout the course of these past weeks though, I have started to come around to the idea of it. I have been learning things that I already knew how to do, but did not know why I was doing them or why they worked the way they did! Essentially, I have always had an instrumental understanding of math and now I am beginning to (slowly) have a more conceptual understanding of math. Already I can see the benefits to this type of teaching. I hope with this new attitude I will have a more positive outlook and learn even more from this class.