Q and A

Most of the math classes I have been in have pertained the normal method of teaching math.. show you the most common way to complete the problem and that is how you do it. From Math Methods I have learned that this teaching style is hightly looked down upon, and I am happy about that. I feel that it is very important that multiple approaches to the same problem are displayed for students. I also think that students should be encouraged to come up with new approaches and really try to look at the problem in a new/different way. I like how this is stressed in our class and although there are times when I feel there are no more possible ways, there always seems to be a hidden approach out there just waiting to be discovered. Encouraging students to explore the possibilities of how the different problems may be answered in numerous ways will also force them to use prior knowledge and relate tasks that they have learned in approach previous problems in order to advance in their learning and develop different learning approaches to problems.