Friday, October 15, 2010

New Insights and their Implications

These past couple of weeks I have been thinking a lot about how I am going to teach math in my own classroom. This has never been something that I have worried or even really thought about because I have always been fairly good at math. However, I have become fairly concerned about being able to teach math in a way that will get students to think about math on a deeper level rather than me showing the students how do something and then they just practice what I showed them. This new insight implicates to me that I am going to have to look at math in a deeper way myself. I think that this class has shown me that there are several ways to express and teach math on a deeper level. However, I do feel that once I do get out into the classroom that I am going to have to continuously be conscious of how I am teaching math and if my students are really learning the concept of a problem or if they are just learning how to do the problem. I may struggle with making sure my students are always learning on a deeper level, mostly because I was never taught to see math on a deeper level, but I think that if I constantly think about how I am teaching a math concept and constantly ask myself "what are the students learning," then I think over time I will be able to consistently teach math on a deeper level.

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