New Insights and Thier Implications

From class, I have learned how much different it is to truly learn math. I feel that I have missed out on a lot of much needed information and as a result I don’t have a concrete understanding of reasoning’s in mathematics. As a result of only knowing how a procedure is done and not ‘why’, it is making this class a little more difficult to grasp these understanding. While it is stressful trying to understand the ‘why’ of the question, when I do get to that point in the understanding I feel as though I am in fact learning it for the first time and the right way. I have learned from my peers, that everyone does learn in a different way and it is critical as a teacher to be aware of that. Also, I have learned how useful the right manipulative is while teaching a lesson. Manipulative are able to help further the knowledge by allowing students to visually see and touch the objects. Through these interactions, students are able to learn math in a much greater, better way.