New Insights and Their Implications

After completing the LPU unit I realized how much time it can take to prepare information that you are not comfortable with. I realized that you need to plan and prepare in advance and give yourself plenty of time. It is best to start at least two weeks prior to your presentation date. I found it very interesting to see how different my peers and I grasp concepts about different topics in math. Some people definitely have a knack for math and others struggle at it like me. It is great to be presented with new techniques that can help a person come to solve a problem. I really enjoyed the lesson from the group I was in on fractions and using the table method. I found the table method to be something so simple that I never would have thought to use it. I feel that the table method will be very helpful to my peers and me when we are teaching our own students. I also enjoyed using the fraction bars but was not completely comfortable in using them because I had never used anything like them before. I learned that you can over think things and need to open up your mind to think about new ways of doing things, there may always be other ways to come about a solution. This is a method that we as college students should have been learning since the second year of college. By learning this method we are better able to help our students understand, enjoy, and build on math. Students should begin learning this method in preschool and should continue while they are pursuing their education. I think that this method of teaching is great and is one that we as students should have learned in school and I look forward to taking the practices from this class into my classroom.