New Insights and Implications

For me, this class is about learning new techniques and strategies to teach elementary math to students. I feel that I know, generally, how to do math problems, but I lack the strategies on how to TEACH it. That is where I get a lot of insight through this class. For example, a new insight I have learned recently in this class has to do with the use of manipulatives. I have learned that by allowing students to use tangible objects to better understand problems, you are allowing them to work more indepth with the problem and allowing them to see the problem from a different angle. By doing that, they are more likely to remember it. I will use this idea throughout my classroom because I have learned in this class that it is important to have a higher level of thinking in math and it is important to teach my students to value that higher level of thinking.