I must admit I haven't been thrilled about not receiving all the answers to the problems and at times i've disliked not having someone hold my hand and walk me through things, but i'm beginging to understand the importance of teaching math this way. It's been tough but after seeing those statistics during one of our first class periods I understand just how important it is for us to start doing things differently. It's obvious that the old way of teaching math isn't working for us and for my future students and myself i'm going to work hard to understand how to better teach mathematics.
Math has never been my favorite subject (as i'm sure some of you agree) so i wasn't looking forward to taking this class, however, after getting started I see that i'm already learning a valuable new way to better teach a subject i previously felt extremely uncomfortable with. I
still don't think I'm anywhere near being ready to teach my own math class but i'm confident that this class will help prepare me for when i do.