Through these past couple of weeks I have learned to teach math from a very different viewpoint. When I was in elementary school I was taught using the traditional way. The instructor would explain the process, give the students a few examples, and expect the student to use the method given from the teacher. Students were not encouraged to find multiple routes to a solution like we are in class. Using the non traditional way of teaching like we are encouraged to do in Math Methods is actually very helpful. When we are allowed to share our strategies with other students and the class as a whole it enables everyone to see multiple routes, a student may find another route easier than the instructor's method. In class we have been provided with higher level thinking questions. With these questions we are ask ourselves, "What are we supposed to be teaching our students, or what are we teaching our students?" Recently, we have been going over the standards to make sure we are teaching by the standards. I also found this to be very helpful. I have really enjoyed this new hands on way of teaching math, it gets students excited about math, even those who struggle. Last Thursday, when we were given the worksheet with blank squares and we had to make as many triangles as we could, it allowed us to do our own thinking, it challenged us. This way of teaching math is different, but I could definitely get use to using it with my future classroom.