New Insights and their Implications

I have already learned a lot through just a couple of times we have had class. I guess what I first thought of math was what I was taught in grade school up to some of my college courses, which was to me was a regurgitation of the text back to the teacher with either a quiz or a test. But I think about the implications of just regular teaching to students and I can see the draw backs. I think with the help of the Timms testing we have learned that we are lacking in focus, reasoning, coherence, and sense making. I have found why students need to know this to be successful in math for a life time. I have also learned a lot about problem solving in a classroom and I think I will have one to two models of problem solving hanging up in my classroom. I think students need to know the required steps of solving a problem and also that there isn’t clearly one way of solving a problem. I think overall I have a better concept of thinking about math more constructively and I also believe that at times the STATE standards suck.