Blog #3

New Insights

From the past couple of weeks, I have had a few new insights that have impacted my overall feelings of this "new way of teaching math." In general, I have a very positive outlook on how beneficial this way is to students and their understanding of mathematics, however, I wish that we would have had this method taught to us from the very start in Math Concepts. I believe that one semester is not enough for us to truly grasp how to teach math this way. It should be a technique that we should work on developing during our entire time spent in the School of Education.
Another new insight I have had is about our LPU lesson plan. I'll admit I was very nervous about whether or not we would be able to teach this correctly in way that would be understandable to students. However, after having our meeting with Dr. Reins, I feel much more comfortable with how we are going to go about our lesson, as well as how we are going to help students grasp the concept we are covering.
A final new insight is on CGI. Overall, I feel that this method of teaching math is very beneficial and would be something that students would not only be engaged in doing, but would help them to grasp a concept much better than just rote work. It has also shown me that it does take quite a bit of work and thinking to produce good CGI problems, but the class presentations were very helpful in providing me with information and examples to help make it easier.