New Insights and Their Implications

Math is a subject that has always taken me a little more time to grasp than it may have for some others. I was never a bad student in math, I just had to work harder than some other people who, I felt, just 'got it.' Within the first few days of taking this course, I began to realize why I did not immediately understand the new concepts that I was taught in school. We were always supposed to memorize formulas, that all looked similar to me, and were never told why the formulas were that way. We just had to know them. I realize now that math was difficult for me because I struggled to make connections from one concept to another in higher math education. I have learned in this class that these connections are what gives a person the ability to truly understand math. The implications of this simple concept are huge. Learning how to help students form these connections will likely help me to become a better teacher in the subject of math, and will help my future students to become more proficient in the subject as well.