New Insights and Their Implications

After six weeks of this class, I have been shown a much different perspective of learning math than I ever have before. I have always learned by a certain route or formula to use for finding the answer to something. I was only shown a small glimpse as to why it was done that way, only shown how to do something. This class has really felt like I am back in elementary. The way in which project based learning works really challenges my traditional thoughts. I feel as if I am relearning all of the material over again. However, I am actually seeing why some formulas are used the way they are in math. The implications I have learned is that it is much more beneficial to the students to see the the why in a math problem before they learn the how. Otherwise, they are just doing something just do it without an idea of why.