For the past few weeks of class, it has definitely been interesting for me. I haven’t been enthusiastic about math, and learning how to teach math wasn’t my idea of an exciting class. The newest style of teaching has me thinking otherwise now.
The Project Based Learning (PBL) approach has been very helpful. It provides me with a new way of teaching mathematics to my students. The approach specifies that the concepts being taught should be meaningful and relevant to the students. Students will no longer be learning math from solely from a textbook and a lecture style mode. Students will actually be exploring and coming up with their own thoughts and ideas on how to solve a math problem. By using PBL, I can teach my students math, how to understand its concepts, new ways of solving problems, cooperative learning, and to like math.
The math activities that we have done in class have shown me what kinds of math problems I am supposed to be giving my students. I like the cooperative learning aspect of it all, and that solving the problem does not necessarily take a formula. That there are multiple ways, multiple entry points, to solve the problem.
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