Personal Concerns and Next Steps

Coming in to the class, I prepared myself to be faced with even more math concepts, but looked forward to learning how I could actually apply some of the concepts I knew already and new ones I gathered, in the classroom. After going through a couple of sessions, I realized this math class would require me to know large amounts of information, being able to understand how to complete math problems as well as how to teach them. When I came in to this class, I felt I would maybe be given much more insight and comprehension about the teaching aspect of math, but like others have said, I feel like I am just re learning and learning new math concepts. Some concerns of mine deal with the knowledge from the book. When taking the quizzes and reading from the book, I feel like I am learning about students and how they learn, therefore, becoming knowledgeable about how to teach students math. I wish we could focus more on this type of content. I do enjoy, after having gone through a session and going over concepts I've done previously, having the feeling something "clicks" and the light bulb goes on. I feel like this type of epiphany actually will benefit when teaching math, but only if I am performing each step precisely and understanding how I got to the solution in the problem. I hope to learn more about the teaching aspect of math in the classroom as this class goes on. It'd be extremely useful to have more practice with lesson plans.