I learned that math has changed and that we now promote talking to solve problems because working on the process of problem solving is where the learning happens. Telling the answer stops the learning. As teachers, we need to be receptive as to when to provide the answer. We don’t want the wait to be too long nor do we want it to be too quick.
Teaching math is about more than just math. It’s teaching social interaction, listening, how to make eye contact, how to take turns, how to interrelate and so on.
As a teacher it’s always better to say, “This is really hard” than to say “This is really easy.”
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We as student teachers have a lot to learn about how to interact with our future students. Math has changed because there is more interaction compared to the isolation that we used to feel. It is always nice to be in groups because everyone always wants to have a sense of being apart of a group. Also I was amazed to hear in my first class that giving the answer to quick can stop the learning process. I never thought of it that way, Wow. I am looking forward to learning more in this class.
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