New Insights and Their Implications

Though this class, I have started to think about teaching math to elementary students in a new way. No longer the traditional, show the students a couple examples and then assign them some problems, but rather, provide the students with higher level questions and have them use problem solving to solve the questions. This will help the students understand the mathematics and to critically think about what they are doing. This will be a challenge because of the different mindset that will be needed to teach math this way and also because of the time that it will take to find quality questions for the students, but I believe that it is worth a shot to try and teach this way because of the added benefits that it provides for the students. Also, if all else fails, you can still resort back to the traditional way of teaching math, but I feel that we owe it to our students to try and provide them the knowledge and skills to help them out in the future as much as possible.