New Insights and Their Implications

So far from this class we are learning about a new approach to teaching mathematics, where the teacher is not providing the students with all the concepts and formulas. Instead, the students are participating in activities where they solve problems and discover the concepts and formulas themselves. This is a hard adjustment to make in prior thinking of what mathematics education is like, and can be frustrating for the students. However, when the light bulb goes off and things start to click for the student's, that's when the method proves itself. I think that when I am teaching in my own classroom I would like for my students to solve their own problems and be the facilitators to their own learning. I am worried though that it may be difficult to encourage students to keep trying and for them to not get discouraged.