New Insights and Their Implications

I have learned a lot about elementary school students from my peers, instructor, and the readings.  This class has given me such a big insight into other ways of teaching and how many students learn from different approaches besides getting the formula and practicing the formula.  It has taught me so much about how giving the formulas, working on the formulas, and giving the answers is not always the way to do the problem, althought that might be how I was taught.   I have learned about the fact that there are many ways that we can teach students and some students learn differently than others.  My peers have taught me about the many ways that students can learn through the many methods that they use in their LPUs.  The readings showed me the many ways and methods that teachers can use to teach elementary students.


This class has taught me a lot about myself.  I never thought of myself as an "instructional based" learner.  I have always thought that this is the way that everyone learns and there is no other method to teaching.  By going through this class, I have found out that there will be other ways that I can teach and it is not just the cut and dry way of teaching.  Their implications to teaching and learning mathematics are that students have different ways of thinking.  For one student, a paper and pencil test might be the best way for them to learn but other students might be better with a more complex way of thinking that does not give them the answer right away.