Summary and Synthesis # 3

I have enjoyed learning about CGI, and I can see how this helps the students. I can see how having students use their own knowledge of problem solving to tackle a problem. This is a much better way to allow students to obtain deep understanding of the process that they will go through to solve fractions. I know that a lot of students struggle with math, and hopefully with this type of teaching, it will become clearer for these students.

I was a bit skeptical about the first half of this class. I truly thought that what was being taught was for older students. That was, until I went to my 3rd grader's conferences on Monday. They are going to start working with rhombuses, trapezoids, right triangles, obtuse angles, and parallelograms. So for those that think that they are not going to be teaching this stuff in the earlier grades, you will be. On that note I will keep the information from the first half of this class for my student teaching and beyond.