Reflection 3
Before class of week 3, I
explored around the games that were posted by the instructor on SAKAI. There
were three games: Prodigy, Canoe Penguins Race, and Demolition Division. I
personally spent more time on the Canoe Penguins Race. It was a competitive
game and I got to play with other people! We progressed in the canoe race by
having the right answer to multiplication questions. I thought it was an
amazing, interactive, and competitive game that can help you multiply in your
head. It is definitely a good tool for learning multiplication. Students at
grade 4-6 level will find it friendly competitive and interactive. Here are the
links to the games:
During
class of week 3, my fellow classmates presented a mathematics learning
activities. I got to see how you can teach one concept in many different ways.
It was amazing to see the numerous models there are to teach one concept. I
don’t remember being taught math that way. If I were taught math that way in my
early years of school I would have understood it a lot better. It is good to
know that there are many resources out there that can help us as future
teachers to teach. These same resources and tools will hopefully help the
students too.
I think
this class is not only about how to teach, but it is teaching me the math
concepts itself too. I think it is great how I am learning the basics all over
again because as I grew up the grades of educations, the basics were forgotten.
I think being a math teacher is a big
responsibility. It is the case with any other subject too, but when learning
math, students tend to stay away from it. Therefore, there is more
responsibility now for a teacher to instill that motivation, inspiration and
make the hard seem easy.
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| Dyslexia. Math Difficulties. Retrieved from http://www.dyslexia.ie/information/information-for-parents/ |
At the end
of that class I have come up with 2 goals. One is that I want to learn more how
to incorporate technology such as games into my teaching. More specifically, I
want to be able to learn how to do that in my math classes. The second goal
that I want to learn is how to model one concept in all the different ways out
there. If I am able to model all the math concepts, then hopefully I can bridge
the gap between the students and me, so that we can meet somewhere in the
middle.
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| Clipart Panda. (2014). I Love Math. Retrieved from http://www.clipartpanda.com/categories/i-love-math-pictures |
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