New Insights and Implications

Math Methods has been much different then any course I have taken up to this point. It has encouraged me to think way beyond the knowledge I have learned in the past. I feel the class is very difficult because in many cases I am having to relearn the math as well as how to teach it in great detail to new learners. I do wish that this course could be two semesters long instead of just one so that not so much information would have to be crammed into one semester. Math has always been my most troubling subject. I feel that if my teachers in elementary school had thought me the reasonings behind math then maybe math would have been a more positive experience. I hope that with Math Methods I will learn ways to better teach math and help my future students learn math. My goal is to help students understand and enjoy math. I would like to take my negative experiences in math and build on them to help my students have a more swuccessful learning experience in math throughout school.