New Insights and Their Implications-Blog #2

Throughout class this month, I have learned a lot of new things about teaching students math. However, the one thing that sticks in my mind and that I found extremely interesting was breaking a shape into other shapes. For instance, it was really interesting when we found the formula for the trapezoid by breaking the trapezoid into two triangles and a square. I had never looked at shapes in that way. I had no idea that I could develop a formula on my own and didn’t believe I could until that assignment. I also found it helpful to use tangrams to see how shapes can be composed and decomposed. Overall, I learned a lot about teaching math to students and am looking forward to learning how to teach the more difficult concepts that students struggle with in the upcoming classes.